Product announcement

Panel PC 677/877 -
the new Panel PC-Family 
for most demanding industrial applications

Designed for tough and demanding environment of industrial machinery SIMATIC HMI offers two new Panel PC series in a most attractive shape:

  • the exeptionally compact SIMATIC Panel PC 677
  • and the easily expandable SIMATIC Panel PC 877

Both of them will be available with five different types of front panels:

  • 12 inch touch (PC 677 only) or keyboard front panels
  • 15 inch touch or keyboard front panels
  • and a 19 inch touch panel for most demanding visualization tasks. 

With IP 65/ NEMA 4 degree of protection on the front, a aluminium die casting housing and a high vibration and shock load the PC 677/877 meet most demanding industrial requirements. 

With regard to performance and operating efficiency the new Panel PC 677/877 convince due to their innovative architecture:

  • IntelŪ PentiumŪ M Processor (PC 677) or IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 Processor (PC 877), 
  • Main memory expandable to 2 GB 
  • 60 000 h MTBF (Mean time between failure) of the display

The PC 677/877 come along with plenty of innovations regarding its connectivity

  • A high-speed USB 2.0 interface integrated in the front. External PC peripheral devices such as a memory stick or a portable DVD writer can connect to it for rapid data storage.
  • Four additional USB interfaces on the device rear. 
  • 2 PCI-slots inside the PC 677
  • 1 ISA- slot (long), 2 PCI and 2 PCI/ISA (long) shared slots inside the PC 877

All slots are equipped with special retainers
 

Illustration: The front panels of the new series 677/877 Panel PCs

For increasing system availability and data security the PCs can be equipped with RAID 1-Mirror drive system by ordering the optional RAID-Controller (PC 677 onboard/ PC 877 occupying a PCI slot) and an integrated dual-hard-disk drive.