Control panel design for industrial equipment and machinery is an important undertaking, resulting in an interface designed to control a machine or process. It’s not a simple matter of selecting an appropriate enclosure and a back panel that houses the electrical hardware.

The importance of control panel design cannot be understated. Industrial control panels allow you to manage the utilities and features of both hardware and software systems which comprises a range of control settings to manage the user interface, display, and more. All components need to be composed correctly and optimized to ensure the best performance. Just by taking a look at a control panel, it will be immediately obvious whether it’s been well organized or whether it can use some improvements. This will ensure that any engineer who works on it won’t have to scour through the system in order to find the correct motor controls, switches, relays, disconnects, or circuit protection devices. In this blog, we’re going to take a look at what comprises a good control panel.

With any control panel, it’s important that components and component groups are organized in a functional and logical way.

Labeling is another important aspect of a good control panel design.