AustralIan
Member
We looked at ignition edge as a low cost lots of bells and whistles HMI, but we just didn't have the resources in house to support all those OS's for our customers.
It is probably a great tie in to full ignition but we couldn't justify it.
You are probably easier just running an ignition client, unless you have sketchy network connections to your ignition server.
Buttons and pots is getting my vote for this one. Get your hands in a pair of their gloves and try to use your HMI. Operators love them, super reliable, no bells and whistles, easy to replace. Toss up between lamps and an ignition client for displaying info ( £100 pc and a £200 monitor, vnc ).
Try to convince them that the user experience is so important to the efficiency of the machine. Studying how operators interact with the machine and what information they need to do specific tasks can provide huge value. Thinking about production figures and browsing trends to find correlations is for the scada. Everything on the HMI should be task focused.
Yes, it is late over here. Good luck to the company, I hope they do well.
It is probably a great tie in to full ignition but we couldn't justify it.
You are probably easier just running an ignition client, unless you have sketchy network connections to your ignition server.
Buttons and pots is getting my vote for this one. Get your hands in a pair of their gloves and try to use your HMI. Operators love them, super reliable, no bells and whistles, easy to replace. Toss up between lamps and an ignition client for displaying info ( £100 pc and a £200 monitor, vnc ).
Try to convince them that the user experience is so important to the efficiency of the machine. Studying how operators interact with the machine and what information they need to do specific tasks can provide huge value. Thinking about production figures and browsing trends to find correlations is for the scada. Everything on the HMI should be task focused.
Yes, it is late over here. Good luck to the company, I hope they do well.