KHS receives award for new control panel

KHS recently received the the iF product design award 2011 for its new control panel.

Over 2,700 products were entered for the award and 1,000 each received a prize.

The KHS control panel with its modern flat screen design was created by ergon3Design and complies with the strict hygiene regulations in the food and packaging industries.

Technical features include a resistive 4:3 touchscreen, illuminated pushbuttons with multicolor LEDs, and an integrated RFID system which forms the basis for central user management.

In the new control panel ergonomics, navigation, and design are coordinated with one another, enabling outstanding operator ergonomics.

The company also received the red dot award for its pioneering machine operating system the Human Machine Interface or HMI.

The award was presented at the red dot design museum in Essen, Germany, to which around 900 creative minds and representatives from the fields of business, the media, and the arts had been invited.

Incidentally, in this competition, 1% of the 6,000 entries from 44 different countries received a red dot, signifying the best of the best awards.