It's very convenientto observe, operate the pressure, thickness, feeding, speedadjustable hand wheels and all kinds of buttons, indicatinglights and indicators are at the sameside.
A bullhorn sounds indicating timeouts. But because the players are deaf, backboard-mounted lights also flash to insure the players knew what was going on.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
The arrangement of benchboard switches and indicatinglights is a setup for the indicators to be obscured by lockout tags.