Product Overview
1-4 SIMATIC Panel PC 670 / 870 Operating Unit, Equipment Manual
Edition 07/01
1.2 Panel PC 870: Computing and operating units
The computing unit is screwed to the rear of the operating unit with two mounting
rails and can be separated from the latter (see Section 4.2.2).
Figure 1-2 shows an example of the complete device:
Operating unit Computing unitComputing unit
Fig. 1-2 Panel PC 870: Complete device, comprising computing unit and
operating unit
The SIMATIC Panel PC 870 can be supplied with various front panels,
which differ by way of their display size and style of operation, which is
either by membrane keyboard or touchscreen.
The following different versions are available:
Keyboard versions
Color display with back-lighting
– 12.1” TFT screen; 800 x 600 pixel resolution
or
– 15.1” TFT screen; 1024 x 768 pixel resolution
Membrane keyboard with alpha, numeric, cursor and control keypad
Function keys/soft keys
– 2 x 8 vertical rows of keys with soft-key and optional direct-key
functions
– 2 x 10 horizontal rows of keys with soft-key functions
– labeling strips for the rows of soft keys
Brief description