Integrated design of Human-Machine Interfaces for production plants

During the development of production plants, powerful tools (e.g. for CAD, CAE, or simulation) are used. The resulting engineering data represent the basis for the development of the corresponding HMI. However, this development is usually still performed manually to a great extent. Therefore, this paper describes a model-based approach for the integrated design of HMIs for production plants. Beginning with the aggregation of available engineering data in a plant model, a multi-step transformation workflow is presented. The user is enabled to edit the intermediary results and thus influence the generated HMI. A concrete implementation of the workflow is presented by means of a case study for a sample production plant.