Pro-face Handheld Touch Panel GP37W2-BG41-24V

The Pro-face GP37W2-BG41-24V is a robust and portable handheld touchscreen panel designed for industrial applications, engineered to comply with global safety standards. It features a 6.5-inch TFT true-color LCD display with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, capable of displaying up to 256 colors for clear and effective visual communication.

Equipped with an internal memory of 2MB FEPROM and a backup memory of 128KB SRAM, the device ensures reliable data storage and operation. For expanded functionality and data transfer, it includes extension interfaces such as a CF card slot and a dedicated Tool interface.

The user interface is highly intuitive, featuring context-sensitive help where hovering over component images provides operational instructions, greatly assisting in screen editing and development. The use of Tags offers enhanced flexibility in screen design, allowing for dynamic and adaptable HMI applications. It supports the simultaneous display of up to three windows, including two U Tag windows.

For alarm management, the panel can display historical alarm data with enhanced features such as alarm sorting by date, frequency, and other parameters. It also includes additional alarm information like occurrence counts, cumulative duration, and alarm level indicators, with different colors representing different severity levels for immediate visual recognition.

Data integration is seamless through Pro-Server, enabling real-time collection of production site information and data into various PC applications. This capability facilitates automatic capture of production metrics, contributing to improved quality control and productivity.

The touch panel is designed for ease of setup and operation. Its programming environment is beginner-friendly, featuring a high-resolution function menu and a streamlined editor where the component palette and editing screen reside in the same window. This allows users to quickly create screens by simply dragging and dropping from over 1200 available pre-defined parts and symbol styles.

Input functionality is versatile, with touch input parts that activate an input mode. It supports multiple input items with sequential input functionality, including grouping options. The on-screen keyboard position is highly flexible and can be set to auto-popup as needed. When parameters are changed, a notification bit can be configured for alerting.

The panel offers extensive display customization. Users can incorporate Windows fonts and image data directly onto the programmable HMI screen. Font sizes can be finely adjusted to fit layout requirements, with scalable magnification between factors of 1 and 8, and specific scaling options at 1, 2, 4, and 8.

Additional practical features include a vibration alert function, a 3-position enable switch, and an emergency stop switch for safety. The number of internal clocks has been increased from 3 to 8 for more flexible timing operations.

In summary, the Pro-face GP37W2-BG41-24V combines portability, a user-centric design with drag-and-drop editing, powerful alarm and data handling, and extensive connectivity options to provide a comprehensive solution for mobile HMI applications in demanding industrial environments.