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The Siemens Industry Automation Division has developed an operator panel in Widescreen format. The Simatic HMI TP 177B 4“ has a fully graphical 4.3 inch touchscreen and four tactile function buttons.
This product, from the 170 family of panels, is notable for its compact format and a visualization screen that is one third larger than that of comparable devices on the market. The LED backlighting of the display can be dimmed to 20 percent of its normal brightness and can be switched off completely by means of the integrated screensaver.
The Simatic HMI TP 177B 4“, which is configured with the aid of the Simatic WinCC flexible 2008 engineering software, also features interfaces for Profibus DP and Profinet IO, as well as terminals for connecting mobile data carriers such as USB sticks, SD cards or MMC cards. The operator can use these to create a backup of configurations, programs or recipe data, for example.
