Control Panel and cabinet design is fundamental in allowing the user to interact efficiently with the industrial process right on the front line. Industrial control panels consist of power circuits or control circuits (or both) which provide signals that direct the performance of machinery or equipment. Industrial control panels don’t include the main power, nor do they include the controlled equipment; rather, the panel is mounted on a back panel (or subpanel) or in an enclosure, depending on the application. The control panels are enclosures fabricated out of sheet metal which can be open, semi enclosed or totally enclosed type. They direct and control electric power to equipment and appliances.

A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed or it is an enclosed unit that is the part of a system that users can access, as the control panel of a security system (also called control unit).