DEAG59602801Uniterm 01 CMM Operator Interface Panel — Control-Side Panel for DEA and Brown & Sharpe Coordinate Measuring Machines (Not a Hand-Held Jog Box)

Product Description

What this part is

A DEA Uniterm 01, part number G59602801: an operator interface panel for DEA coordinate measuring machines and the Brown & Sharpe CMM systems that share DEA control hardware. It is the operator-facing control interface on the CMM control side.

Clarifying what this is not — panel versus jog box:
Our previous title carried “/ Teach Pendant,” and it is worth separating the two, because on a DEA machine they are different part numbers and a buyer who needs one will not be helped by the other.

The portable terminals — the hand-held units an operator holds while jogging the machine — are the DEA TU01 and TU04 jog boxes. Hexagon’s own CMM jog box documentation lists them alongside the Universal Jogbox, the Next Jogbox, the Brown & Sharpe jogbox, the Sheffield jogbox, the PMM-G and the Starrett. A TU01 carries a feed knob, two deadman (operator-presence) buttons, eight function buttons, a joystick knob controlling the two carriages and the ram, and a mushroom emergency stop. That is a jog box.

The Uniterm 01 is catalogued in the surplus and repair market as a DEA CMM interface panel. It is the fixed operator interface on the control, not the thing on the end of the cable. We have removed “teach pendant” from the title for that reason.

We are being careful about the strength of that claim: no DEA or Hexagon document defining the Uniterm 01’s exact function was retrievable, so the identification rests on independent dealer catalogue entries for G59602801 and G59602802 as “Uniterm01 CMM interface panel.” What we can say with confidence is that the TU01/TU04 are the jog boxes and the Uniterm is not one of them. The photographs on this listing show the actual front face, and they are the best evidence available of exactly what controls it carries — use them.

Part numbers

G59602801 — this unit.G59602802 — the sibling variant, catalogued by dealers against the same Uniterm 01 product. No published decoder distinguishes -01 from -02, so we are not asserting they are interchangeable. Match the exact number to your machine’s parts list.

What is not included

Panel only. Not included: the connecting cable and mating connector, the CMM controller (Tutor P, Tutor N, Master P or later), the machine, any mounting frame or enclosure cut-out hardware, and PC-DMIS or any other measurement software. Note that a DEA control-side interface is only meaningful attached to a matching DEA controller — this is a repair part for an existing machine, not a component you can adapt to a different CMM.

Compatibility — confirm before ordering

Electrical ratings, connector type and pinout, and the specific DEA controller generations this panel works with are not published by the manufacturer for this legacy assembly, and we have not invented them. Before ordering, verify the connector and the controller generation against your own machine. DEA controllers in circulation include the Tutor P, Tutor N and Master P families, and jog boxes for later Hexagon machines use the Leitz protocol — which is a good indication that interface generations are not freely mixed across the DEA and Hexagon eras.

Origin note

We make no country-of-origin claim on this listing. DEA — Digital Electronic Automation — is an Italian company, founded and based in Turin; an earlier note on this record said “Made In USA,” which we could not substantiate and have not repeated. Brown & Sharpe’s US operations distributed and badged DEA hardware, which is a plausible route for a US marking to be genuine, so we are neither asserting nor denying it. The marking on the actual unit is the authority.

Quantity and interchange guidance

Two units in stock, sold individually — one to fit and one to hold, or spares for two machines.

Search forms include G59602801, G596028-01, G5960 2801, G59602802, DEA Uniterm 01, Uniterm01, Uniterm 1, DEA CMM interface panel, Brown & Sharpe CMM operator panel and Hexagon DEA operator interface. Ownership trail buyers search: DEA (Digital Electronic Automation) → Brown & Sharpe → Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence. Hexagon still supports DEA-branded CMMs and holds the legacy documentation, so if you need the pinout or the controller compatibility confirmed, Hexagon service is the right call. There is no current-production equivalent — modern Hexagon CMM interfaces are a different architecture entirely, which is why an original Uniterm remains the practical repair for an otherwise sound machine.