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Comfort Panels are operator panels designed for:

🖥️ Advanced process data visualization

⚙️ Advanced machine control

🔧 Management of recipes and complex parameters

🚨 Detailed diagnostics and alarm management

Compared to Basic Panels, they offer:

• greater processing power
• more advanced graphical interfaces
• enhanced integration features

⚙️ Main technical features – Comfort series

Comfort Panels stand out for their advanced technical features:

• High-resolution widescreen displays (4” – 22”)
• Multitouch technology
• PROFINET / Ethernet interfaces
• Integration with TIA Portal (WinCC Comfort)
• Support for SIMATIC S7 PLC systems and complex architectures
• Advanced logging and diagnostic functions

👉 Ideal for applications requiring greater operator-machine interaction.

⚠️ Production continuity: the role of Comfort Panels

In more structured industrial environments, Comfort HMIs play a central role in process control.

A failure may cause:

❌ loss of visibility on complex systems

❌ inability to manage advanced parameters

❌ slower fault diagnostics

❌ line downtime in integrated systems

👉 The more complex the plant becomes, the more critical the HMI becomes.

🔍 MLFB roots of SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels – 6AV2 / 6AV6 series

Within the SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels range, the MLFB roots are mainly divided into:

• 6AV2124 → Modern Comfort Panels (standard and PRO)
• 6AV6 → Advanced HMIs and previous generations (MP, Mobile, IPC-based)

🔹 6AV2124 – Standard Comfort Panels

This is the main root of modern SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels.

It includes the most widely used operator panels in the Comfort range:

• TP700 Comfort
• TP900 Comfort
• TP1200 Comfort
• TP1500 / TP1900 / TP2200 Comfort
• KP900 / KP1200 Comfort

Features:

• High-resolution widescreen displays
• Touch or key/touch technology
• Full integration with TIA Portal (WinCC Comfort)
• Wide adoption across industrial plants

👉 🔗 Link: 6AV2124 root page – Comfort Panels

🔹 6AV2124 PRO – Comfort Panels PRO (support arm mounting)

Sub-family of the 6AV2124 series, designed for more mechanically advanced applications.

Includes:

• TP1200 Comfort PRO
• TP1500 Comfort PRO
• panels for support arm systems

Features:

• Adjustable support arm installation
• Use in complex plants and automated production lines
• Improved operator ergonomics

👉 🔗 Link: 6AV2124 PRO page – Comfort Panels PRO

🔹 6AV6… – Advanced HMIs and previous generations (MP / Mobile / IPC)

The 6AV6 root identifies a broader family of Siemens HMI devices, often used in:

• systems predating the Comfort generation
• advanced or specialized applications
• PC-based integrated architectures

It includes several sub-roots:

▪ 6AV6643 – Multi Panels (MP series)

Advanced operator panels from the generation preceding Comfort Panels.

• MP277
• MP377
• use in complex legacy plants

👉 🔗 Link: 6AV6643 root page

▪ 6AV6645 – Mobile Panels

Portable HMI devices for machine control.

• Mobile Panel 177 / 277
• wired or wireless (IWLAN) versions

👉 🔗 Link: 6AV6645 root page

▪ 6AV6646 – Industrial Thin Client / IPC-based HMI

HMI solutions integrated with industrial PC architectures.

• Thin clients
• distributed visualization systems
• SCADA integration

👉 🔗 Link: 6AV6646 root page

▪ 6AV6647 – Previous generation Basic/Advanced HMI

HMI devices used in legacy plants.

• older operator panels
• retrofit applications still in operation

👉 🔗 Link: 6AV6647 root page

🛠️ E-Repair services for SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels

E-Repair offers a complete range of services focused on production continuity:

🔧 Component-level repair in an in-house laboratory

♻️ Electronic remanufacturing with zero-hour restoration

⚡ Advance replacement service with remanufactured units

🧠 HMI data backup and recovery

🧰 On-site and remote technical support

🧼 Technological cleaning with biodegradable solvents

👉 Services compliant with:

• ISO 14001 – Environmental management system
• ISO 14064-1 – Organizational Carbon Footprint
• BS 8001:2017 and AFNOR XP X30-901:2018 – Circular economy standards

📌 Conclusion

SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels – 6AV2 / 6AV6 roots represent an advanced solution for industrial control.

Ensuring their efficiency means:

• improving operational management
• reducing downtime
• increasing plant reliability

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