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4 Graphic Design Tips to Improve HMIs
To help you design HMI screens that are optimized to improve performance, this tip sheet covers four ways to use one of the most powerful design principles to optimize your HMI projects – creating emphasis.
6 min read
The 3 Most Common Design Mistakes
To help you make the trip as painless as possible, this tip sheet will walk you through a list of some of the most common mistakes made when designing an HMI / SCADA project, along with how you can avoid them.
4 min read
Controlling and Tracking Grain Automation
This project is for the automation of the grain handling at a facility in Nebraska. There is no traditional HMI with this project. The Ignition application handles the device level control of every motor at the facility. This particular application was on a single server running a MySQL database. There were four clients, one PLC connection to an Allen Bradley ControlLogix, about 12,000 real-time tags, and a few transaction groups logging about 1,500 points of data. The project was developed originally in Ignition version 7.5 and it fully leverages templates and UDTs.
4 min video
Creating Tag Tools in Ignition for Porting From Other SCADA Platforms
The client is Continental Cement, a continuous-process cement plant located in Hannibal, Missouri. The project involved porting a Citect SCADA platform project based on TOP Server as the OPC server. The Citect system is a legacy system with various iterations enhanced over time by various parties. Each party had their own methodology, naming conventions, and standards for graphic objects. The goal of the port was to move the entire legacy system to Ignition, and, as part of the process, normalize the tag tree and naming conventions with uniform HMI navigation behavior. As there was no overall documentation for the legacy system, the port consisted of reverse-engineering the entire Citect system. Due to this, for functional validation to be effective, the ‘new’ Ignition windows had to contain graphics objects with a look, window placement, and behavior equivalent to the Citect system.
5 min video
Enerchem Boosts Efficiency with Cross-Platform SCADA
Enerchem adopted Inductive Automation's cross-platform SCADA solution and Ignition modules after using an antiquated and unreliable control system for many years.
Industrialized Embedded Hardware System
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30 min video
The Secrets of Highly Effective HMIs
Learn design tips on how to use color, layout, navigation and trending to create HMI projects that are optimized to improve operator performance.
53 min video
Design Like a Pro | Part 1: Laying the Foundation for Successful HMI / SCADA Projects
Have you ever gotten to the end of a project and wished it had gone smoother? This white paper will walk you through how to set up your project from the start to reach a better end product.
18 min read
Design Like a Pro | Part 2: Developing Dynamic HMI / SCADA Projects with Speed and Precision
Designing projects can take a long time and be filled with hours of tedious development tasks. Your workflow can be streamlined by using powerful time-saving tools - and understanding how to most effectively use them.
22 min read
Design Like a Pro | Part 3: Securely Launching HMI / SCADA Projects
The success or failure of any HMI / SCADA project is judged by the final result. Learn how to put the finishing touches on your design and tailor it to fit your specific needs.
17 min read