M2I Corporation has released its new XTOP 7” and 10” HMIs, which have been specifically designed to meet the requirements for the monitoring and controlling of industrial plants.
The 110 mm TFT Colour display supports 65 536 colours and has a backlight life of 50 000 hours. These touch screens are analogue with a one million or more touch-life time and serial communication that has support of RS-232C and RS-422/485.
These HMIs have built-in real-time clocks with a screen memory of 6 MB and a resolution of 800 x 480. M2I’s multi-functional design software (XDesignerPlus) is included for ease of graphic design and Ethernet support for protocols such as Modbus TCPIP, Allen-Bradley EtherNet IP and Siemens Ethernet is provided.
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