Human Machine Interfacedesign
HMI Project designs innovative Human Machine Interfaces for industrial applications. Due to premium quality design we create an user-friendly software and provide customised/tailor-made solutions which work and inspire.
Red Dot Design Award for the User Interface of Schneider Electrics new IIoT Platform
Red Dot Design Award 2020 for the user interface from Brückner Maschinenbau
The interface ›logotherm‹ for our client gwk wins the German Design Award 2020
HMI Management System for Next Generation Industrial Applications
News
Another double success at the Red Dot Design Award
We are once again doubly successful: In the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2020, we have succeeded for the third time in a row in convincing the international jury with the high design quality of two projects. We can thus count ourself among the winners of the most renowned design competition worldwide.
For the projects ›Easy Operation‹ of our customer Brückner Maschinenbau and ›LMS Life‹ of our customer Schneider Electric, the jurors awarded the coveted Red Dot twice. In 2020, 6,992 creative projects and brands from 50 nations were registered for the competition. Following the motto ›In search of good design and creativity‹, the 24 international jurors evaluated the submissions online this year and examined each work and brand professionally, individually and comprehensively. In doing so, they placed particular emphasis on the form, the idea and the effect. Only those projects that convinced the experts with their high design quality and creative performance were finally awarded a prize.
Red Dot Website
Press release
Project description Easy Operation
Project description LMS Life
Cooperation with Schneider Electric
HMI Project supports Schneider Electric Germany in the design and development of a user interface for the Industrial IoT product ›LMS Life - Line Monitoring System of the next generation‹. Data visualizations and smart infographics are the focus of the project.
Schneider Electric SE is a publicly listed electrical engineering group active in the fields of electrical power distribution and industrial automation. The company is based near Paris and is represented in approximately 150 countries.
Cooperation with HERMOS
HMI Project supports HERMOS AG in the development of a new user interface in the area of Track & Trace.
The Hermos group of companies is specialized in the areas of automation and information processing and is represented at twelve locations in Germany and four locations worldwide. It employs a total of 500 employees there.
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Winner at the German Design Award 2020
The user interface ›logotherm‹ for the gwk Gesellschaft Wärme Kältetechnik mbH is the winner of the German Design Awards 2020. The competition is organized annually by the German Design Council and honors innovative products and projects, their manufacturers and designers, that are pioneering in the German and international design scene. This is ensured by the high-profile, international jury. Only entries that were nominated can take part in the competition. The award ceremony of the German Design Award 2020 took place on February 07, 2020 in Frankfurt am Main in the course of the 'Ambiente'. The winner exhibitions were presented in the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main and in the exhibition center.
Image gallery award ceremony
Project description
GDA Website
HMI Project at the SPS in Nürnberg
From 26 to 28 November 2019, the SPS in Nuremberg was the pilgrimage site of the automation industry. HMI Project was again an exhibitor and in addition to the latest award-winning interface projects presented its own product development for the first time: Helio - a 100% web-based HMI management system for creating industrial user interfaces. The Helio Editor works with a modular kit that automatically follows usability and design rules. The integrated UX intelligence generates fully responsive HMIs without the need for programming knowledge on the customer side.
Numerous existing customers and interested parties visited us at the joint booth of Bayern Innovativ and experienced with Helio a completely new type of HMI configuration. The response was very positive. All visitors showed great interest and in numerous exciting discussions we received valuable feedback for the further development of the product.
Image gallery from the show
SPS Exhibitor Profile
Helio HMI Management System
Helio in the latest Study by Fraunhofer
Selecting a suitable development tool presents decision makers in industrial companies with a variety of questions. The new study by the Fraunhofer Institute ›Overview of HMI Tools of today and tomorrow‹ shows the current tool landscape and discusses what the future might look like.
13 HMI tool manufacturers were available for this study. Although our ›Helio‹ HMI Management System is currently still in development, it was already able to impress with its completely new concept and ease of use.
Currently, HMIs are typically built manually on a screen by screen basis. Shapes and objects are put together on a drawing area the size of the later panel and the logic behind them is programmed. Since each function element is created individually, the design process is complex and the result is often inconsistent. For a panel of a different size, the entire HMI must be readjusted.
›Helio‹ is going to change this.
The ›Helio‹ Editor works with page templates and grid layouts that are easily filled and configured by the user with functional widgets and controls. Programming skills are not required. The automated behavioral logic and the vectorization of all visual elements enables true automatic adaptation of the HMI to all presentation modes.
A revolution in HMI configuration.
First presented at the SPS in Nuremberg from 26.11. until 28.11.2019
Hall 6 / Stand 206 (joint stand with Bayern Innovativ)
Links
Fraunhofer Study
Helio Website
SPS Exhibitor Profile
Press
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elektrotechnik.vogel.de
Talk at the World Usability Day 2019 in Würzburgs Felix Fechenbach Haus
Every second Thursday in November, the World Usability Day (WUD) illuminates the various aspects of usability and user experience in worldwide events. This year's theme ›Designing for the future we want‹ was inspired by the United Nation’s (UN) sustainable development goals. In Würzburg too, leading experts from business and science will be part of a half-day event with a variety of user-oriented design themes.
Under the title ›Usability and Web Technology‹ in Industry, Christian Rudolph (CEO of HMI Project) used a practical example from the packaging industry and showed how usability engineering, UX/UI design and web-based frontend development is used to create innovative and configurable software solutions for special machine construction. The lecture provided insights into the process and the methods used to create a multi-award winning user interface.
Presentation at the Industrial Usability Day 2019 in Würzburgs Vogel Convention Center
On November 5th, the Industrial Usability Day took place in Würzburg. The event was entirely dedicated to the human-machine-interface and was addressed to anyone who optimizes the operating and safety process of machines and plants. Among others, the researchers from Fraunhofer IAO presented the results of the new ›Fraunhofer HMI Study 2019‹.
Markus Buberl, CEO of HMI Project, discussed the efficient configuration of HMIs in a presentation, based on a reference project for the packaging manufacturer Rovema, and explained which functions are must-haves for state-of-the-art industrial HMI tools.
Speaker: Markus Buberl
Topic: Web-based editorial system – HMI configuration of industrial machines
Photo gallery of the event
Website Industrial Usability Day
News at elektrotechnik.vogel.de
HMI Project receives the Red Dot for good design twice
We are celebrating! We succeeded in winning over the international jury with two projects in the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2019. Based on the high design quality and creative accomplishment of the User Interfaces ›logotherm‹ and ›Aasted Smart HMI‹, the jurors awarded the sought-after Red Dot twice. Over several days, the experts had scrutinised, discussed and assessed a total of 8,697 international entries to the competition to ultimately select the best for an award. The Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2019 celebrated its culmination and with it this year’s best works and brands on 1 November 2019. During the award ceremony in the Berlin E-Werk we were allowed to receive the certificates. Together with our customer Aasted we celebrated properly afterwards.
Photo gallery award ceremony
Red Dot Website
Red Dot Online Exhibition / Aasted
Red Dot Online Exhibition / logotherm
Red Dot Website
Presse Release
Project description logotherm
Project description Aasted Smart Control
