Automated HMI design as a custom feature in industrial SCADA systems

Abstract

The adoption of emerging technologies under the Industry 4.0 paradigm has resulted in an increased quantity of data projected on the human-machine interface (HMI). This complexity is imposed in combination with users’ limited cognitive capabilities to interpret such data quantity. We foresee this limitation fails to address the human-centric approach of the Industry 5.0 paradigm. To overcome this challenge, an automated approach is proposed to enable user-guided ad hoc visualization forms, which ultimately increases users’ situational awareness of supervised industrial processes. In this paper, we present a framework for introducing automated HMI design as a custom feature of standard SCADA-based HMI functionality and showcase an example of how open technology may be used for such purposes, thus opening new avenues for rapid innovation on SCADA HMI. The framework enables integration of the user-initiated additions for loosely coupled visualization components configurable and integrated into the standard HMI runtime layer to meet changing user needs.