New units, Old cutouts...

What do you do when a product becomes obsolete and the replacement does not fit in the same cutout? Design and layout changes from the drafting department often arrive too slow. And what about the panels that already have cutouts? And more importantly what about customers that need an upgrade?

I will have to admit that this ranks high on the annoyance scale of doing business. That is why it is nice when a manufacturer actually comes out with a retro-fit adapter plate for the new products.

As you are probably well aware the older 8" and 10" HMI products from KEP have been replaced with the new MMI8000 series units. The new 10.4" units are slightly smaller than the old 10" units. And, there is no 8" unit so the even smaller 7" unit is the replacement. Going smaller to bigger is usually not a problem. But, going bigger to smaller is.

KEP will be offering 2 adapter plates in the near future...

Adapter 1: RFZ061000, is used to fit a new 10.4" MMI8104XH or 10.2" MMI8100 into the old 10.4" MMI1500 cutout.

Adapter 2: RFZ060700, is used to fit a new 7" MMI8070H or 5.6" MMI8056 into the old 8" MMI850 cutout.
Preview preliminary datasheets here....

RFZ061000
RFZ060700