Industrial Message Displays / Variable Message Signs

Engineered in the UK for reliability, clear visibility and ease of use, these industrial message displays are the sensible choice if you need reliability and clarity.

"We had a specific requirement for our station timers and London Electronics were not fazed by this at all.

James visited our site with demo models and explained very clearly what he needed from us in order to get the best product.

We had changing circumstances in our project and LE responded quickly to all. When faced with meeting a much earlier deadline than expected they really pushed on so we could get all the timers we needed.

Overall they are a very professional company, the products they have supplied are top quality and I will be using them in any further projects."

Paul Johnson, Maintenance Engineer: Bentley Motors Limited

Outdoor LED Vehicle marshalling variable message signs

Our Titan series of LED variable message signs is ideal for a wide range of industrial messaging, where you need to keep your teams informed of important site conditions in real time.

We were selected to design and build these outdoor vehicle routing signs for the busy Port of Cork.



Rugged marine-tolerant enclosures include front swing-doors to make installation and maintenance simple.



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Titan industrial moving message displays are in use at Tilbury Docks, near London.

The displays were custom made to be controlled by the Dock Authority, by the Police and by the Traffic Department, using a shared web-based scheduling tool, with priority rules.

The displays accept data over the GSM phone network and over the internet.




The model shown above is the Titan-128-16-DLV version, with ultra-bright clear daylight viewing LEDs for outdoor mounting. Designed and built by us in the UK with 5 year warranty.

Titan moving message displays mounted above manufacturing cells on a prestige automotive manufacturing line.

"Hi Bob,

Here are some photos of the Displays and a short video in action.

Thanks for some good work by LEL, they are just what we wanted."

Best Regards,
Denis Sturman
C&I Engineer
Saint Gobain Glass

With these rugged yet attractive industrial message displays, you can share important production and plant information with all your team. Information which is up to date and easy to see is vital for efficient teamwork.



They are easy to integrate into a wide range of industrial fieldbus networks and we can provide pre-configured gsd files for most formats.

• Standard Inputs = RS232, RS485, Binary contact closure
• Optional network inputs = TCP/IP, Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Profibus, ControlNet, GSM, Profibus etc.
• Character heights = 50mm, 120mm, 200mm, 400mm
• Sealed for washdown
• Up to 20 lines
• Indoor and Outdoor versions
• AC and DC power versions
• RoHS compliant

This family of industrial message displays is modular, so modules can be combined to give the ideal character height, number of characters per line and number of lines per system to suit your application.

Tell us what you need and we'll send you a message display specification to do the job perfectly.

Titan message displays being assembled at our Bedfordshire factory

New: Ex nR Atex Displays

Characters vs. pixels

8 pixel high
(Single line 50mm high)

Titan 32x8 pixels = 5 char.s, single line
Titan 64x8 pixels = 10 char.s, single line
Titan 96x8 pixels = 16 char.s, single line
Titan 128x8 pixels = 21 char.s, single line
Titan 160x8 pixels = 26 char.s, single line
Titan 192x8 pixels = 32 char.s, single line
Titan 224x8 pixels = 37 char.s, single line
Titan 256x8 pixels = 42 char.s, single line


16 pixel high
(Two lines 50mm high, or 1 line 120mm high)

Titan 32x16 pixels = 5 char.s, 2 line / 4 char.s, 1 line
Titan 64x16 pixels = 10 char.s, 2 line / 8 char.s, 1 line
Titan 96x16 pixels = 16 char.s, 2 line / 12 char.s, 1 line
Titan 128x16 pixels = 21 char.s, 2 line / 16 char.s, 1 line
Titan 160x16 pixels = 26 char.s, 2 line / 20 char.s, 1 line
Titan 192x16 pixels = 32 char.s, 2 line / 24 char.s, 1 line
Titan 224x16 pixels = 37 char.s, 2 line / 28 char.s, 1 line
Titan 256x16 pixels = 42 char.s, 2 line / 32 char.s, 1 line


24 pixel high
(1 line 150mm high)

Titan 32x24 pixels = 2 char.s, 1 line
Titan 64x24 pixels = 4 char.s, 1 line
Titan 96x24 pixels = 7 char.s, 1 line
Titan 128x24 pixels = 9 char.s, 1 line
Titan 160x24 pixels = 12 char.s, 1 line
Titan 192x24 pixels = 14 char.s, 1 line
Titan 224x24 pixels = 17 char.s, 1 line
Titan 256x24 pixels = 19 char.s, 1 line


32 pixel high
(1 line 200mm high)

Titan 32x32 pixels = 4 char.s, 2 line/1 char, 1 line
Titan 64x32 pixels = 8 char.s, 2 line/3 char.s, 1 line
Titan 96x32 pixels = 12 char.s, 2 line/5 char.s, 1 line
Titan 128x32 pixels = 16 char.s, 2 line/7 char.s, 1 line
Titan 160x32 pixels = 20 char.s, 2 line/9 char.s, 1 line
Titan 192x32 pixels = 24 char.s, 2 line/11 char.s, 1 line
Titan 224x32 pixels = 28 char.s, 2 line/13 char.s, 1 line
Titan 256x32 pixels = 32 char.s, 2 line/15 char.s, 1 line

Titan documents

1. Titan simple messaging examples

2. Titan detailed messaging examples

3. Titan IP Message Displays leaflet

4. Titan controller board connection layout

5. Titan guide for installing on a network

6. Titan Manager Software

7. Profibus AB7000 .cfg file for Titan 128x8

8. Profibus AB7000 .cfx file for Titan 128x8

9. Tibbo Software + DS Manager

10. Matrix creator

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Modularity for Flexibility
Titan message displays are designed and built in England, using a modular system. This allows us to create a unique message display to suit your requirements exactly.

The number of lines of text, text character height, data communication method, power supply, sealing, brightness, mounting method - all are selectable in different combinations.

This allows us to create exactly the right format message display for your application.

How to connect our displays to popular fieldbus networks such as Profibus, Ethernet I/P, CanOpen, DeviceNet, TCP/IP, RS232, RS485

With the use of HMS industrial network gateways such as the AB7000 range, you can connect our displays to almost any industrial network type. The gateway device mounts in an area with an available network connection and sends RS485 to our display. We recommend that the gateway device be mounted in an accessible location, such as a PLC cabinet, so that you can easily configure it and view its diagnostic indicators. HMS have an extensive technical library to help you to configure your gateway to your requirements. Fieldbus Type Support data EthernetIP [Docs and files] Profibus DP [Docs and files] ProfiNet [Docs and files]

A real time multi-production line performance display with colour to show how well each line is doing against daily, weekly and monthly target.



Titan displays above sections of an automotive manufacturing line, communicating via Ethernet/IP

Examples from the Titan range of message displays

A few of our 50mm character IP displays, showing red. green and amber colours.


Being used in a Site Safety outdoor display to show Days Since Last Accident statistics and safety warnings



Outdoor message display in marine environment with GSM / SMS message update.
Note small antenna block on top surface of the message display for mobile phone network connection.

Distribution Bay message displays

We produce message display systems for use in distribution warehouses. These are often installed at the lorry bays to indicate such information as next destination, trailer number, ETA and so on.




We also make message displays for demurrage / vehicle delay calculation and display, with statistical analysis according to each site's particular requirements.

Titan Message Displays in the London Underground

Titan message displays were chosen by London Underground for their lift or elevator information displays

Custom message display software

In addition to the wide range of physical possibilities with Titan message displays, you can also tell us exactly what sort of interface you need and we will gladly design a format to suit you precisely.

Our philosophy is one of providing exactly the message display format YOU want

A typical custom-built message display we have just delivered. The coloured rectangles on the right are full colour LED andons which can be illuminated to indicate different conditions on the line.



The message displays are driven from a PLC and can store preset messages, or can act as slaves directly from an RS485 or EtherNet data stream.

The building blocks of a Titan message display...
These are the main parts of our message displays. The top 2 modules are display boards which can be assembled together like non-ovelapping bricks to create a message display panel as large as you need.

Each section is controlled by the message controller module at the bottom.

This can store up to 255 messages, which can be triggered by a binary logic input, or it will accept RS232 or RS485 serial data input, TCP/IP, Ethernet/IP, Profibus, Profinet etc.



A custom-made outdoor message display for vehicle routing in an industrial plant...





Moving message displays for Jaguar / Land Rover, during manufacture at our Bedfordshire factory ...





Moving message displays with custom format for batch status indication...



Our camera strobed with the display for this video, but here we see a 32 pixel high Titan message display with 200mm high character capacity.



A networked message display which can be controlled by smart phone from anywhere in the world...





A networked message display which can be controlled by smart phone from anywhere in the world...