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HMI & Operator Interfaces Portal
HMI and Operator Interfaces Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to the Automation.com portal for HMI and Operator Interfaces with ideas, insights, and the latest information for controls and automation engineers to provide better interfaces between processes and people. The choices continue to grow for person to machine interfaces including message displays, mobile computers, new HMI (human-machine interface) software features, technologies and Microsoft developments.
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Articles
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Embedded Application Frameworks: Simplifying the development of M2M devices
- 02/04/12 Embedded Computing Design, January 2012 By Pierre Teyssier, Sierra Wireless With advances in wireless technologies, defining a strategy for building wireless M2M-enabled devices is not the dauntingly complex task it was once thought to be. |
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Compliance with new pipeline rule offers opportunity to implement best practices
- 02/04/12 InTech, February 2012 By Russel Treat, EnerSys Many pipeline operators will spend substantial time and effort reworking their control rooms and systems to comply with the new Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Control Room Management rule by 1 August 2012. Done right, this could significantly improve their operations. |
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Simulation improves operator training
- 02/04/12 InTech, February 2012 By Platt Beltz, Yokogawa PC-based simulation cuts operator training costs while yielding superior results as compared to other training methods. |
White Papers
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The Effective Operator
- 11/21/11 Automation.com, November 2011 By Hongyu Pei Breivold, et al, ABB Here’s how ABB's System 800xA helps improve operator effectiveness through improved situational awareness and better handling of abnormal conditions. |
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Real Time Control Over the Web
- 11/17/11 Automation.com, November 2011 By Steve Jahnke, Galixsys Networks Devices make use of the Web to send and receive data, usually from a cloud service or backend server. Most of the inherent latency and processing problems of the web can be removed if XML document passing is not used as the means to transmit generic commands. |
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Effective OPC Security for Control Systems
- 09/26/11 September 2011 By Eric Byres and Darek Kominek By While the consequences of cyber attacks and malware are no longer in doubt, the question remains, "Exactly how can an engineer reliably secure his or her control system?" This white paper outlines a simple and cost effective answer – a security solution based on OPC technology that can be deployed in almost any industrial facility today. |
Application Stories
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A thin client solution at Richards Bay Coal Terminal
- 01/29/12 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, January 2012 Reliability problems with standard PCs as well as the difficulties presented by backups and upgrades prompted the terminal to look for a more centralised solution based on thin client technology. |
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Mechanical Machines Bending Horizontal
- 01/15/12 Control Design, January 2012 By Dan Hebert Industrial Technology Solutions modernized the control system of its horizontal bender with an HMI, PLC and sensors. |
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Natural Gas Production: Enabling In-the-Field Meter Data
- 12/29/11 Automation World, December 2011 Dart Oil and Gas needed to make production data from its methane wells available to engineers in the field. Using OPC, they switched from a centralized system to a modern HIM/SCADA system that allowed Web-enable smartphone access. |
Resources & Literature
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SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 4th Edition - $109.00
After completing these 15 self-study units, readers should be conversant with SCADA nomenclature and architecture, understand the basic technology of the system’s building blocks, understand its limitations, understand how it can benefit particular operations, and have a basis for selecting appropriate SCADA technology for their operational requirements. |
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Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide, 2nd Edition - $89.00
In this second edition, various problems of alarm systems are covered with precise guidance on how they come about and how to effectively correct them. It is written by individuals with vast experience in the different plants, processes, and environments requiring effective alarm management. |
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AutomationDirect offers free HMI programming software
C-more Micro-Graphic Programming Software offers high end features designed to reduce configuration time. Simply drag and drop objects from the Object list onto the screen construction area. Then configure PLC tags and assign them to the objects. |
Training News
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InduSoft Security Webinar Help Users Protect SCADA Systems
- 01/12/12 This webinar on January 25, 2012 will show how to use tools in InduSoft Web Studio software to protect critical processes from security threats. |
Training & Seminars
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Product Announcements
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Alerton introduces multiple building dashboard
- 02/02/12
Dashboard enables end users to display data from an unlimited number of individual buildings to as many as 450 concurrent users. |
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Maple Systems Introduces HMC Combination HMI and PLC
- 01/24/12
HMC accepts up to five plug-in I/O modules with varying configurations of digital and analog inputs and outputs. |
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KEP enhances Infilink HMI software for PLCs
- 01/24/12
Infilink-HMI provides machine builders a software package that is quick to install and easy to configure under Windows 7 and XP operating systems. |
Company & Organization News
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Matrox Graphics to License Source Code of display software
- 01/18/12 Source code of M-Series drivers will be made available to approved OEM developers. |
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How China is Stealing Our Secrets
- 01/22/12 PD&D, January 2012 By Michael P. Collins U.S. Intelligence agencies say that both Russia and China steal technology information over the internet as a matter of national policy. It is hard to say if China is still the red menace from the cold war, or if they have morphed into a new form of winner-take-all amoral version of capitalism. |
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ICONICS promotes Tim Donaldson to Business Development Manager
- 12/22/11 Donaldson joined ICONICS in 2003, and was promoted to Director of Marketing in 2004 where he oversaw day to day marketing activities and events for ICONICS. |
Project News
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QA Graphics has symbolic relationship with Tridium
- 01/31/12 QA Graphics will develop a custom 3D symbol library exclusively for Tridium's NiagaraAX building automation platform. |
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Nuclear power plant simulators to be upgraded by L-3 Mapps
- 01/22/12 Power Engineering, January 2012 L-3 Mapps will upgrade the existing Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station full scope simulator and to equip the plant with an additional classroom simulator. The Pilgrim station is a 684 MW General Electric boiling water reactor power plant. |
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Boosting production efficiency and reducing errors in ammonia production
- 12/18/11 Control Engineering Europe, December 2011 Five of EuroChem’s ammonia production units in Russia are to be fitted with Honeywell Process Solutions’ UniSim Operator Training Simulation (OTS) solution. |
Event News
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Industrial Supply 2012 Showcases U.S. Industrial Subcontractors
- 12/06/11 Leaders in the subcontracting business will be presenting their latest product developments in industrial materials to a vast audience attending HANNOVER MESSE. |
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HANNOVER MESSE 2012 focuses on sustainability
- 11/21/11 By adopting "greentelligence" as its keynote theme, HANNOVER MESSE 2012 has put the spotlight squarely on green technologies as a central growth driver for industry. |
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China is Partner Country of HANNOVER MESSE 2012
- 06/28/11 The People's Republic of China will be honored as the official Partner Country at HANNOVER MESSE 2012 (the Hannover Fair) in Hannover, Germany. |
Events
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