Scada and Panel design

[orense]

Hello everybody,

Does anybody know if there is any good litterature on Scada design. I have worked with WinCC flexible, IGSS etc but sometimes you start to wonder which way is the best way to design things.
I am thinking of basic things like colours, writing ( caps or no ), alarms handling, how much information to put into desaign etc...

All these things has to be decided before you start, therefore I wonder if there are any guidelines that has been specified be industrial design experts etc?

Any comments?

Andreas

 

[danw]

I just happened to read that in Bailey & Wrights' Practical SCADA for Industry book last night! They don't have much to say about it:

I'll see if I can peruse my ISA standards and see what they have to say about the topic.

Dan

 

[danw]

see pages 41-45 for HMI standards from US Army standards published in Technical Manual No 5-601, titles (in typical all caps US Army fashion):

SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION (SCADA) SYSTEMS FOR COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTER, INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE (C4ISR) FACILITIES

I don't have a pdf extractor on the this PC and the file size of 800+Kb is too large for this forum's upload.

Dan

 

[danw]

The 5 pages covering Operator Interfaces from TM 5-601:

 

[danw]

ISA's standard, Human Engineering for Control Centers, ISA–RP60.3–1985, has only the most generic stuff, like "use color coding". Not worth the purchase, in my view.

 

[orense]

Thanks alot, Danw !


Andreas

 

[danw]

These pages from a SCADA system User Guide show an overview of screen layout taking into account navigation and areas for messaging and alarms.