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Multi-touch panel HMI from Beckhoff offers "consumer electronics" experience

Industrial-strength HMI designed for harshest factory conditions, available in landscape and portrait format, allows operator to zero in on any part of packaging line for diagnostic troubleshooting. HMI leverages touch and swipe technology found on tablets such as the iPad.

Jim Chrzan
Oct 30, 2012
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