Industrial Panel PCs

An industrial panel PC is a fanless all-in-one computer built into a sealed touchscreen, engineered for the factory floor rather than the office. Industrial grade components, a wide operating temperature range, and a dust-tight housing let it run 24/7 next to machines, in kiosks, or on vehicle-mounted stations where a consumer PC would fail. faytech panel PCs pair capacitive touch glass with Intel processors in sizes from 7″ to 27″.

The classic role is the human machine interface (HMI): operators controlling equipment, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) dashboards, and production monitoring on the line. Beyond automation, they run warehouse pick stations, machine vision terminals, building management, and self-service systems in demanding spaces. Because they are standard x86 computers, they run the same Windows or Linux software as a desktop — just in industrial packaging.

Fans are the first thing to fail in dirty environments — they pull dust, oil mist, and debris straight through the electronics. A fanless industrial panel PC cools passively through the aluminum housing instead: no fan to fail, no filter to service, no contamination path, and silent operation. That is the difference between a computer that survives a factory floor for years and one that needs cleaning every quarter.

IP ratings describe sealing. IP65 means dust-tight and protected against water jets — right for washdown-adjacent areas and outdoor-sheltered mounts. IP69K is the highest rating: sealed against high-pressure, high-temperature washdowns, which is why our IP69K stainless steel touch PCs serve food processing and pharmaceutical lines. Standard panel PCs carry sealed IP65-class front bezels with the rear protected inside an enclosure.

Every Intel-based model runs Windows 11 — including Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, the long-life version built for industrial deployments — as well as Windows 10 IoT and mainstream Linux distributions. That means your existing HMI, SCADA, or MES software runs unmodified. Systems ship with the OS installed and the touchscreen configured, ready for unattended deployment.

The X6413E series is the efficient workhorse: fanless Celeron-class compute for HMI, dashboards, and standard industrial applications at a lower cost. The Intel Core i5 series adds the performance for machine vision, local data processing, and mission critical applications that would strain an entry-level chip. Both share the same industrial housing, sealed capacitive touch, and mounting — so you can mix series across one facility and keep a consistent fleet.

An industrial panel-mount PC seals the touchscreen and computer together behind one front bezel, dropped into a cabinet or enclosure cutout so an operator can view and touch in a single unit. An embedded PC — fanless, compact, and built on the same industrial-grade platform — builds into a machine, kiosk, or control panel rather than a cabinet face, and our Industrial Box PCs cover installs where the display already exists. Choose the panel PC when operators need to see and touch in one sealed housing; choose a fanless embedded PC when the computer builds in behind your own display. Both are industrial computers built on the same connectors and mounting hardware, so one facility can standardize across product lines.

An industrial touch panel PC typically sits at the operator layer of an automation system: the human machine interface (HMI) that displays a SCADA screen, machine status, or production dashboard and lets an operator issue control commands without opening a laptop on the line. A fanless industrial touch panel PC is the standard choice for that role, since it mounts directly on or near the equipment it monitors with no vents to clog with metal dust or coolant mist. Engineers retrofitting a manufacturing line pair it with existing PLCs and network protocols rather than replacing them, so an industrial touch screen panel PC upgrade does not require touching the rest of the control system.

Rugged, in this context, means industrial grade components rated for continuous duty rather than office use: a wide operating temperature range, no internal moving parts to loosen under vibration, and a sealed housing that keeps dust and moisture out of the electronics. That combination is what makes a rugged industrial panel PC reliable — delivering the reliability and high performance an operator can count on in an environment with temperature swings, machine vibration, and washdown or dust exposure, the same conditions that shorten the life of consumer-grade electronics within months. Tell us the shock, vibration, or temperature spec your application calls for and we’ll match a platform rated for it.

Windows is the standard on this line. Windows 11 — including Windows 11 IoT Enterprise — is the default for new industrial deployments, and Windows 10 IoT remains supported for fleets standardized on it or running software not yet validated on Windows 11; mainstream Linux distributions run on the same hardware. Android is not offered on the Intel-based industrial panel PC line — it runs on our ARM-based embedded PCs, which suit single-purpose HMI or kiosk-style screens where a full Windows license and desktop overhead are not needed. The operating system does not change the computer underneath: the same fanless, sealed housing runs Windows 10, Windows 11, or Linux, so a version change mid-refresh does not mean requalifying new equipment.

Standard connectivity options include USB ports for peripherals and data transfer, plus serial and Ethernet for integrating with existing control systems and network infrastructure. Power input is specified per model and configured to match the cabinet or control system the PC installs into, so a facility does not need a separate power adapter for each display. VESA and panel-mount hardware handle the physical integration, and features such as touch type, brightness, and IP-rated sealing are configured to the application. Tell us your control system and cabinet power, and we can confirm the exact I/O before you finalize a design.

Yes. faytech is the manufacturer — not a supplier reselling someone else’s hardware — and OEM and ODM work sits alongside our standard, off-the-shelf industrial panel PC lines. Customers commonly ask us to adjust brightness for sunlight readability, storage and memory configurations, branding, or mounting and enclosure details to fit an existing product line, and our engineers scope those changes before you commit to a volume order. Because every OEM configuration differs, price is quoted rather than listed on the site: tell us the specification, environment, and quantity through our industrial panel PC solutions page, and support continues past delivery rather than ending at the sale.