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🧠 What are SIMATIC HMI Unified Panels

Unified Panels are next-generation operator panels developed for:

🖥️ Advanced process data visualization

🌐 Web-based and multi-device access

⚙️ Advanced control and supervision

🧠 Integration with digital and cloud systems

Unlike Comfort Panels, Unified Panels introduce:

• HTML5 architecture
• fully web-based interfaces
• greater openness toward external systems

👉 They are designed for modern and digitalized industrial environments.

⚙️ Main technical features – Unified series

Unified Panels stand out for their advanced technological features:

• High-resolution widescreen displays (7” – 22”)
• Advanced multitouch technology
• Fully web-based interface (HTML5)
• Integration with WinCC Unified
• Remote browser access (PC, tablet, mobile)
• Greater processing power and memory capacity
• PROFINET / Ethernet communication

👉 Ideal for Industry 4.0 and 5.0 architectures.

🏭 Typical applications of Unified Panels

Unified Panels are used in:

• Industry 4.0 and 5.0 🏭
• Highly integrated automated production lines
• Smart factories
• Plants with remote supervision
• Highly digitalized sectors (automotive, pharmaceutical, energy)

🔍 MLFB roots of SIMATIC HMI Unified Panels – 6AV2 series

Within the 6AV2 family, Unified Panels are identified by specific MLFB sub-roots representing the new Siemens HMI generation.

🔹 6AV2128 – Standard Unified Panels

Main root of Unified Panels.

Includes:

• Unified Comfort Panel 7”
• Unified Comfort Panel 10”
• Unified Comfort Panel 15”
• Unified Comfort Panel 21”

Features:

• web-based architecture
• integration with WinCC Unified
• multi-device remote access

🔹 6AV2128 PRO – Unified Panels PRO

Advanced versions for sophisticated industrial installations.

• support arm mounting
• use in complex environments
• improved operator ergonomics

⚠️ Production continuity: the role of Unified Panels

In modern plants, Unified Panels are not just HMIs, but true digital nodes.

A failure may cause:

❌ loss of remote access to the system

❌ interruption of advanced supervision

❌ disruption of IT/OT communication

❌ difficulties in diagnostics and data analysis

👉 The more digitalized the system becomes, the more central the HMI becomes.

🛠️ E-Repair services for SIMATIC HMI Unified 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 products

🧠 HMI data backup and recovery

🧰 On-site and remote technical support

🧼 Technological cleaning with biodegradable solvents

👉 All services are performed according to standards compliant with:

• ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System)
• ISO 14064-1 (organizational carbon footprint)
• BS 8001:2017 and AFNOR XP X30-901:2018 standards for circular economy

🚀 Why choose a qualified partner

The online market includes many suppliers offering used or refurbished products without real testing procedures.

Relying on a qualified partner means:

✔️ complete testing of functionality and displays

✔️ traceability of repair and regeneration processes

✔️ advanced technical support

✔️ greater operational reliability

👉 A key aspect for companies subject to ESG requirements and supply chain traceability.

📌 Conclusion

SIMATIC HMI Unified Panels – 6AV2 root represent the future of industrial interfaces.

Ensuring their efficiency means:

• enabling plant digitalization
• improving operational management
• ensuring production continuity even in complex environments

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