SIMATIC HMI TP1500 Comfort PRO 15-inch Expandable Round-Pipe Panel PROFINET and PROFIBUS (6AV2124-0QC24-0BX0) CAN Electric — Industrial Automation Parts Supplier

The variant that gives the operator something to press

Most support-arm panels are touch-only, and for a lot of machines that is fine. It stops being fine when the operator has to hit stop without looking, work in gloves thick enough to defeat a projected-capacitive surface, or repeat a jog or an acknowledge several hundred times a shift. Those are the cases this order number exists for. The screen stays the same; what changes is that the housing can carry extension units, and an extension unit is a bolt-on body beside the display with real keys and switches wired into the panel.

A 48 mm round pipe is not a Siemens-only interface

The mounting bore follows the standard 48 mm support-arm system, so a machine that already has an arm from another supplier does not have to be re-engineered around a proprietary bracket — and a panel that fails can be swapped without touching the arm structure. The pipe adapter is not part of the panel’s scope of supply, which is why we ask which arm you intend to use before quoting. The tube, the joint and the cable routing belong to the machine; the panel is the part that hangs on the end.

Expandability that outlives the panel

This family is in phase-out, and the successor runs a different software platform — but the extension-unit interface is mechanically compatible between Comfort PRO and Unified Comfort PRO. Practically: the arm, the extension units and their wiring survive the migration, and only the panel and its project have to be replaced. If you are specifying a machine that will still be built in 2030, that is the difference between replacing one part and rebuilding the operator station.

Data per the Siemens product documentation. Confirm the pipe adapter, the extension-unit selection and the supply against the current data sheet before ordering mechanical parts.

If the machine needs no physical controls, the fixed 0AX0 does the same job for less hardware — the extension interface is the only thing you are paying for here.

All three run the same project, the same engineering software and the same screen layout — the difference is purely how the panel is held up. The smaller 12-inch version of this housing is documented on the TP1200 Comfort PRO (6AV2124-0MC24-0AX0) page.

The panel couples to SIMATIC S7-1200, S7-1500 and S7-300/400 over PROFINET, MPI or PROFIBUS DP; Modbus TCP/IP and EtherNet/IP cover third-party controllers. A door-mounted TP1500 Comfort project does not load onto this device unchanged — the module and the TIA device type differ, so budget the rework before treating it as a drop-in replacement.

Typical uses

• Machines with an existing 48 mm arm system that must be reused rather than replaced.
• Stations where stop, reset or jog have to be reachable by feel, in gloves, without looking at the screen.
• Builds that will still be delivered after the Comfort PRO phase-out and want the operator hardware to survive the migration.

How to order

• Email sales@can-electric.com with the order number, the delivery country, the arm you intend to use and how many extension units you need.
• State the condition you need — new, new-surplus or refurbished is written on the quote, not implied.
• Because this type is in phase-out, availability is confirmed per order; prices are quoted in USD and shipped from Hong Kong by DHL.