One of the biggest challenges, and also one of the best opportunities, for a controls engineer is to add value to a project with the operator interface or HMI. There are many trade-offs to be ...

With any new tech device, whether a cell phone or plant-floor controller, there is inevitably a helpful feature or two you overlooked while reading the manual or taking the introductory tutorial.

A panel I attended at the Renesas Developer's Conference this week has made it clear: The design of the human-machine interface (HMI) in embedded systems has become a lot more complex. But creating ...

ISA defines an alarm as an audible or visible means of indicating to the operator an equipment malfunction, process deviation, or abnormal condition requiring a timely response. A safety alarm is ...

In the field of software and application design, whether it is an in-house team or collaborators at an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), it's common for multiple designers to work simultaneously ...

While both human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies connect humans with equipment, HMIs tend to be local to a machine, allowing a user to ...