Airmax is a 15.6-inch panel that has the computer bolted to its back rather than sitting in the cabinet beside it. One part number covers the screen, the touch layer and an Intel Core i5 platform with up to 16 GB of memory and 1 TB of storage, which is the difference between quoting an HMI and quoting a monitor plus a box plus the cable between them.
The rear module carries the connectors in two rows — 2 × LAN, 6 × COM, 8 × USB, 1 × HDMI and an 8-channel GPIO block, with 2 × RS485, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as options — because retrofits are rarely short of serial devices. The housing is full aluminium alloy with a narrow bezel and an IP65 front panel, so the side of the machine that the operator touches can be washed and the side that holds the cables stays accessible.
Most panels on a production line are monitors: the computer that renders the HMI sits in the cabinet below, connected by a video cable that someone has to route, protect and later fault-find. Airmax puts the platform on the back of the panel — i5-7200U or i5-5200U, up to 16 GB of memory, up to 1 TB of storage — so the screen and the machine driving it are one part number with one lead time and one warranty.
That is worth having when the cabinet is full, when the panel is on a moving arm, or when the project has to be commissioned by one supplier instead of three. It is the wrong choice when the architecture already has a rugged IPC in the cabinet and only a display is missing: in that case an industrial monitor does the job for less, and we will say so rather than sell a computer you do not need. Tell us what is already installed and we will quote the shorter bill of materials.
At 1920 × 1080 on a 15.6-inch diagonal the panel gives roughly 141 pixels per inch, which is the point where a recipe page, a trend chart and four machine-status tiles can share one screen without the operator zooming. On a 1024 × 768 panel of the same physical size the same HMI software has to scroll, and scrolling during a changeover is where mistakes happen.
What the resolution does not tell you is brightness, contrast or viewing angle — those figures are not in the factory datasheet we were given, so they are not on this page. If the panel goes where sunlight or an angle-poor mounting position hits it, ask for a sample and look at it under your own lighting before you commit to a batch. Tell us the mounting height and the light source and we will tell you honestly whether this panel or a higher-brightness unit is the right starting point.
A retrofit starts with a hole that already exists. Every millimetre of bezel around a 15.6-inch panel is display area the operator loses, and on a machine that has been in service for a decade the existing cutout is not going to grow. A narrow bezel keeps more of the 1920 × 1080 area visible and leaves less frame to mask the buttons drawn at the edge of your HMI project.
The housing behind it is full aluminium alloy with CNC finishing and an anodised surface, as the factory describes the process — which also explains why there is no fan: the enclosure is the heat spreader. We quote the process the way it was given to us rather than as a marketing adjective, and we recommend confirming it for the exact configuration before it goes into a tender document. Ask for the material and finish statement and we will send it with the quotation.
The front panel is rated IP65: dust-tight, and protected against water jets from the front. On a line with coolant mist, flour dust or a washdown hose pointed at the machine, that is the face that matters, because it is the one the operator touches with wet or gloved hands and the one that gets wiped at the end of a shift.
It is not a sealed box. The rear carries the connector rows and the PC module, and that side is not rated to the same level — how much dust or water it sees depends on how the panel is mounted and whether the cabinet behind it is closed. Tell us the actual environment: coolant, flour, washdown, outdoor yard. If the back of the panel is exposed we will quote a rear cover rather than let you find out in the second month.
One face of the rear module carries the power input, HDMI, 2 × COM, 4 × USB, 2 × LAN, audio and the power switch. The opposite face carries the expansion block — 4-in / 4-out, 8-channel GPIO, COM5 and COM6, and a remote power-on interface — plus the battery port, a SIM slot, another 2 × COM and another 4 × USB. That is 6 COM and 8 USB in total, and the split is deliberate: field wiring lands on the face that is easiest to reach.
In practice the two LAN ports separate the machine network from the plant network without a second switch, the six serial ports cover a PLC, a scale, a barcode reader and two drives with one spare, and the GPIO block handles a stack light and a door interlock without extra hardware. Connector position and count vary by configuration — send us the device list and the protocols and we will map every port before you order, instead of after the panel is on the machine.
Two options, one generation apart. The i5-7200U is the default: seventh generation, enough headroom for a 1080p HMI with live trends, alarms and an embedded browser. The i5-5200U is the cost-down choice for fixed screens — a machine panel that shows the same page all day does not need the newer part, and pretending otherwise only adds money to the quote.
Both are 15 W-class mobile processors, and it is worth being plain about the ceiling: this is not a platform for machine-vision inference, for a large local historian, or for running a dozen virtual machines at the panel. Memory 4 / 8 / 16 GB and storage 128 GB – 1 TB on SSD, M.2 or SATA cover the HMI range comfortably. Tell us the software stack and how many tags or trends it displays, and we will tell you which of the two processors is actually enough.
The platform is offered with Windows, Linux, Ubuntu and the domestic Kylin and UOS distributions. The exact releases are not fixed on this page because they depend on the image built for your order, and a version number typed from memory is worse than no version number at all — it is the kind of detail that is discovered during commissioning, not during procurement.
For an OEM project the operating system image is part of the bill of materials: we can ship with your image and your licence, or with ours if you have none. The practical question is drivers — serial, GPIO and touch. Ask for the driver package together with the sample, and tell us which release you intend to run so the image can be tested against it rather than against the one on the bench.
The panel is offered for embedded mounting into a cutout, wall mounting, cantilever arm and desktop use. The rear plate carries the fixing points, and the PC module is bolted to that plate — which is why the depth behind the panel matters as much as the cutout in front of it, especially on a swing arm where the load has to be carried.
No cutout drawing is published on this page, because the drawing depends on the touch type and the module fitted. Ask for it as PDF or DXF and you will have the exact dimensions to give your fabricator; tell us the panel thickness and whether the door swings, and we will confirm that the chosen mount is appropriate instead of leaving the mechanical risk with your integrator.
Smart manufacturing cells, automation equipment control, warehouse and logistics terminals, and commercial self-service equipment — these are installations where a 15.6-inch touch panel is the operator window and the same box is doing the logging behind it. Robotics and machine vision cells use it as the interface, not as the vision processor.
What this page does not claim is medical use. Hospital workstations are a real application for panel PCs, and we can supply a unit for one — but not with a medical device certification it does not hold, and not with a clinical claim in the quotation. If your project is clinical, say so at the enquiry stage and we will be explicit about which approvals the build actually carries and which your own certification body will have to cover.
The commercial terms are short enough to state plainly: minimum order one unit, samples available, seven-day lead time on standard configurations, three-year warranty, OEM and ODM supported. The seven days assumes a stocked configuration; changing the processor, the touch layer or the storage moves the order to the build lead time printed on the quotation, and we would rather write that down than have you discover it a week later.
Customisation is handled in three steps — configuration review, sample evaluation, production planning — because a logo on the bezel is easy to promise and hard to undo once the housing has been machined. Nameplate, boot logo, packaging and a preloaded system image are the parts most projects start with. Send the requirement list with quantities and destination and the reply comes back as a configuration proposal, not a catalogue page.
Item | Specification |
Product type | 15.6" industrial touch panel PC (panel PC with rear-mounted PC module) |
Display size | 15.6 inch |
Resolution | 1920 × 1080 |
Touch technology | Capacitive or resistive (optional) |
Glove operation | Supported (confirm glove type with sample) |
Processor | Intel Core i5-7200U (7th gen) / i5-5200U (5th gen) |
Memory | 4 GB / 8 GB / 16 GB |
Storage capacity | 128 GB / 256 GB / 512 GB / 1 TB |
Storage media | SSD / M.2 / SATA (optional) |
Network | 2 × LAN; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth optional |
Serial ports | 6 × COM; 2 × RS485 optional |
USB | 8 × USB |
Display output | 1 × HDMI |
GPIO | 8 channels, 4-in / 4-out |
Audio | 1 × audio output |
SIM | 1 × SIM card slot |
Expansion interface | GPIO, COM5 / COM6 and remote power-on grouped on one connector block |
Meetneng traces its manufacturing back to 2008, and designs and builds in Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong — the district that supplies much of China's appliance and electronics industry. The plant covers 5,000 m², and the work is not assembled from someone else's boxes: sheet-metal fabrication, board-level integration, system assembly, burn-in and software imaging all happen on the same site. That is why a change to a port layout, a housing or a nameplate can be answered with a date rather than an introduction to a third party.
The product range covers industrial panel PCs, fanless industrial PCs, embedded computers, rugged tablets, industrial displays and commercial self-service terminals — panel-mount, VESA, DIN-rail, desktop and floor-standing formats from one factory. Quality control runs to ISO 9001 with twelve inspection points from incoming components to the final functional test, and the field repair rate is held under 0.5 % — a number that matters more than any single specification on any one of those pages.
Thirty-plus patents are held by the engineering team, covering thermal design, structural details and the interface between the electronics and the enclosure. Units are issued with CE, FCC, LVD and RoHS documentation against the exact bill of materials of the build you order, because changing a radio module or a power supply changes the test scope.
More than 15,000 customers in over 100 countries have bought from us, across industrial automation, energy, medical equipment, security, retail and logistics. Reference accounts include Haier, Gree, BYD, Hikvision, Foxconn and CRRC. Most of those relationships began with a single unit on a single line, which is the pattern we plan for: the first sample has to be right, because the second conversation depends on it.
Trade happens in person as well as over email. We take our own stands at international industrial and electronics fairs — the collage below is our booths across several shows — and the engineers who answer an enquiry are often the ones standing there, so a specification question tends to get an answer on the spot rather than a promise to check. Between shows, buyers come to Shunde to walk the line, sign off a sample and agree packaging. Tell us when you are travelling and we will hold a slot and a sample build for the same week.
OEM and ODM are the default way we work rather than an exception. The engineering team takes a requirement list — CPU or SoC, memory, port count, enclosure, logo, packaging, software image — and returns a configuration and a lead time. The nameplate, boot logo, gift box and manual are the parts most buyers start with, and the SDK or driver documents are released to the account that orders the sample.
Units ship by express and air freight with export documentation and industrial protective packaging; stocked configurations leave within 72 hours and built-to-order units follow the lead time on the quotation. Tell us the application, the destination country and the annual volume, and we will come back with a configuration, a landed-cost estimate and a sample plan.
