• Control panel (engineering)
  Control panel (engineering)
  A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed.They are found in factories to monitor and control machines or production lines and in places such as nuclear power plants, ships, aircraft and mainframe computers...
  
  , a flat, often vertical, area where control instrumentation is mounted.
• Control panel (computer)
  Control panel (computer)
  Many computer user interfaces use a control panel metaphor to give the user control of software and hardware features.-Computer History:The term control panel was used for the plugboards in unit record equipment and in the early computers of the 1940s and '50s...
  
  , the tool in the operating system which allows most or all of the settings to be changed through a user interface
  • Control panel (Mac OS)
    Control panel (Mac OS)
    Under Mac OS 9 and earlier, a control panel is a small application which enabled the user to modify software and hardware settings such as the sound volume and desktop pattern. Control panels differ from extensions in that they allow the user to specify options, whereas extensions provide the user...
    
    
  • Control Panel (Windows)
    Control Panel (Windows)
    The Control Panel is a part of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface which allows users to view and manipulate basic system settings and controls via applets, such as adding hardware, adding and removing software, controlling user accounts, and changing accessibility options...
    
    
  • Web hosting control panel
• Control panel for Unit record equipment
  Unit record equipment
  Before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using electromechanical devices called unit record equipment, electric accounting machines or tabulating machines. Unit record machines were as ubiquitous in industry and government in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
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See also

• Plug-board: Used for some cipher equipment
• Telephone switchboard
  Telephone switchboard
  A switchboard was a device used to connect a group of telephones manually to one another or to an outside connection, within and between telephone exchanges or private branch exchanges . The user was typically known as an operator...
  
  : A manual exchange
• Patch panel
  Patch panel
  A patch panel or patch bay is a panel, typically rackmounted, that houses cable connections. One typically shorter patch cable will plug into the front side, whereas the back holds the connection of a much longer and more permanent cable...