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Hello all, many great moments!
First, I have some modest HMI design experience (ABB and Siemens). A few months ago I've stumbled on a link to a book The High Performance HMI design by Bill Hollifield, Dana Oliver, Ian Nimmo, Eddie Habibi. As much as I could find about it I liked very much, but it's a substantial investment for me. Is it worth the money? Is there any of authors on this forum?
Second, I'm a beginner in HMI design, and the design ideas presented in this book seem like not possible to easily implement in previously mentioned vendor's HMI development tools. For example 1: a vertical bar that colours last 15 minutes of variable change in different colour. Example 2: a dashed lines for upper and lower limits of a variable anticipated during start-up in a trend preview. You can't use this features in HMI development tools, without writing custom made code (like AcitveX). My co-worker told me that kind of code can't be used in real life because it's not vendor tested and approved or certified for working 24/7 without problems.
So my question is: how to implement ideas presented in the mentioned book without meddling in the framework code layer between HMI design tool and operating system?
Third, here's a joke I read a few days ago in some Automation guide :
Optimist will tell you the glass is
half-full; the pessimist, half-empty;
and the engineer will tell you the
glass is twice the size it needs to be.
- anonymous
Many greetings!
Ivan Harhaj
First, I have some modest HMI design experience (ABB and Siemens). A few months ago I've stumbled on a link to a book The High Performance HMI design by Bill Hollifield, Dana Oliver, Ian Nimmo, Eddie Habibi. As much as I could find about it I liked very much, but it's a substantial investment for me. Is it worth the money? Is there any of authors on this forum?
Second, I'm a beginner in HMI design, and the design ideas presented in this book seem like not possible to easily implement in previously mentioned vendor's HMI development tools. For example 1: a vertical bar that colours last 15 minutes of variable change in different colour. Example 2: a dashed lines for upper and lower limits of a variable anticipated during start-up in a trend preview. You can't use this features in HMI development tools, without writing custom made code (like AcitveX). My co-worker told me that kind of code can't be used in real life because it's not vendor tested and approved or certified for working 24/7 without problems.
So my question is: how to implement ideas presented in the mentioned book without meddling in the framework code layer between HMI design tool and operating system?
Third, here's a joke I read a few days ago in some Automation guide :
Optimist will tell you the glass is
half-full; the pessimist, half-empty;
and the engineer will tell you the
glass is twice the size it needs to be.
- anonymous
Many greetings!
Ivan Harhaj