GE-FanucColour Operator Interface Terminal, Industrial WorkStation Family, Panel Mount, Full Graphical Operator Station

Product Description

What this part is

This is a GE Fanuc colour Operator Interface Terminal from the Industrial WorkStation (IWS) family — a panel-mounted operator station with a colour display, built to sit in a machine or line-side enclosure and give an operator graphical access to a GE Fanuc control system. It is a complete terminal.

Getting the tier right matters here because operator interface covers three very different things in a GE Fanuc plant: the small text-only OIT keypads that hang off a Series 90-30, the hand-held jog pendants used on robots and CMMs, and the full graphical Industrial WorkStation. This is the third of those — the top tier, and priced accordingly.

Decoding the numbers, because there are three of them:
44A295081-003R06: the GE drawing number. This is the number stamped on the unit and the one that appears in GE and third-party repair databases. The -003 block identifies the configuration and R06 the revision level. Sibling revisions such as -003R04 are catalogued by repair houses against the same product, which is good evidence that the R-number is a revision rather than a different product.

IWS-1513-GE: the product-family designation. IWS stands for Industrial WorkStation. The GE3 variant of the same family is catalogued as IWS-1513-GE3.

IC600KD532: the GE catalogue number for the IWS-1513 family, with suffixed revisions such as IC600KD532C. This is the number that finds it in GE parts lists rather than repair databases.

All three refer to the same physical product. A buyer holding a machine parts list will usually have only one of them, which is why all three are on this page.

Quantity and configuration

Sold individually. One terminal per purchase, supplied as the complete panel-mount operator station shown in the photographs. Cabling to the PLC or host, an external keyboard or pointing device, the panel gasket and mounting clamps, the power cord and a CIMPLICITY or runtime software licence are each separate items.

Condition and what the Tested note means

Our record marks this unit as new old stock, made in the USA, and tested. Testing on a unit of this type means it powered up and displayed, rather than a certification that every option and every port has been exercised against a live control. On a terminal of this vintage the components most likely to have aged are the backlight, any internal battery, and the electrolytic capacitors in the power section. None of those is a fault today; all of them are worth knowing about before the unit goes into a critical line.

Interchange and obsolescence guidance

Search forms include 44A295081-003R06, 44A295081003R06, 44A295081-003, IWS-1513-GE, IWS1513GE, IWS-1513, IWS-1513-GE3, IC600KD532, IC600KD532C and IC600-KD-532. The related larger unit in the same family is the IWS-2513.

The line is long obsolete with no factory replacement. The ownership trail buyers search is GE Fanuc Automation to GE Intelligent Platforms to Emerson. Board-level repair and refurbishment services for the IWS family are still commercially available, which is the practical reason a working original is worth more than a migration project: replacing an IWS means a new panel cutout, new cabling and new visualisation software, and for a machine that is otherwise sound that is a disproportionate amount of work.