Touch screen operator control panel for industrial machines, in particular for the control of maneuvering of the axes of injection presses for plastics, including an operator interface on which icons are displayed indicating the various axes of a press, the icons being individually selectable in order to be dragged into an area of maneuvering where they are translatable in the two ways of a prefixed direction to impart the corresponding movements to the selected axis, wherein the possibility is provided of simultaneously displaying in the maneuvering area icons of several press axes correlated one to the other and of actuating sequentially/selectively the movements of these press axes by dragging a central zone of the maneuvering area in the corresponding different directions wherein the respective icons of the press axes are displayed.