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Challenges

Challenges

Many industrial manufacturers rely on outdated process graphic displays, limiting their operator’s ability to quickly and effectively respond to changing conditions. This often leads to increased operator stress, increased error rates, and ultimately, process disruptions.
 
Novaspect collaborates with clients to design, configure, and test Human Machine Interface (HMI) graphic libraries and process displays for better situational awareness, advanced visualization, and improved plant performance. By delivering high performance graphics, we enhance the plant experience, fostering better operational safety and decision-making.

Desired Outcomes

The goal is to enhance operational effectiveness and safety by improving situational awareness and providing operators with clear, actionable information that allows them to quickly identify and respond proactively to changing conditions.
 
Benefits include:
  • Improved Situational Awareness: Operators can assess the operational status within seconds.
  • Reduced Operator Errors: Clear and intuitive Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 graphics ensures operators can quickly and accurately interpret critical information. 
  • Enhanced Monitoring and Response: Operators can efficiently monitor processes and respond to issues promptly.
  • Increased Safety: Better visualization helps in detecting potential hazards.

Solutions

Novaspect provides a range of solutions and services to enhance HMI process graphic visualization:

Advanced Visualization with DeltaV Live
DeltaV Live offers a modern, built-for-purpose operations experience, designed to meet the high-performance requirements of today's operators. With its intuitive user interface and robust security features, DeltaV Live ensures that operators have constant visibility and access to the most important alarms, enhancing overall operational effectiveness.

Highlights include:
  • Modern Operations Interface: DeltaV Live provides a high-performance Distributed Control System (DCS) interface with HTML5 graphics, supporting cross-platform compatibility and mobility which allows operators to access alarm information from various devices. This advanced platform allows for the creation of high-performance graphics without the need for complex scripting, and supports best practices identified in the ISA 101.01-2015 standard.
  • Historical Trending: Integrating historical trend data as pop-up displays or within the operator displays, providing context with process trends and integrated event data including alarms and setpoint changes, helping the operations team to make informed decisions. This feature enhances the ability to understand and respond to alarms effectively.
  • Alarm Management: DeltaV Live offers sophisticated alarm management capabilities with robust alarm prioritization and timestamping of the tag parameter at the source, ensuring consistent alarm presentation across all operator workstations. An alarm banner displays the highest priority alarms, providing one-click access to detailed information and associated process graphics.
  • Customizable Displays: Flexible configurations allow for tailored, high-performance graphics that enhance situational awareness. Operators can switch themes and languages online, monitor focus areas and parameters in real-time, and integrate historical trending within faceplates and main displays.
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HMI Display Design Best Practice Workshop
Comprehensive workshop reviewing the ANSI/ISA 101.01-2015 HMI Standard covering best practices for HMI design for improving situational awareness. Reviews recommended display hierarchy (L1, L2, L3, and L4 displays), graphical element consistency, alarm management, and data visualization techniques, ensuring that operators can quickly and accurately interpret critical information. Through hands-on exercises and real-world examples, attendees will gain the skills needed to design HMIs that improve safety, reduce errors, and support optimal plant performance.
 
Human Machine Interface (HMI) Philosophy and Style Guide Development
Comprehensive framework and guidelines for designing and managing HMIs in industrial control systems. Ensures consistency, usability, and safety by standardizing graphical elements, layouts, and alarm management practices. The result is intuitive, operator-centric HMIs that enhance situational awareness and operational efficiency.
 
Graphical Elements (GEMs) Library Development
Collection of reusable and standardized graphical components for HMI displays within DeltaV Live to ensure consistency and operator effectiveness. This process includes defining common graphical elements such as icons, data parameters, alarm indicators and status symbols, which can be combined to create more functional displays. The outcome is a collection of high-performance, fit for purpose GEMs that can be leveraged on any HMI graphic display to enhance situational awareness and operational effectiveness.
 
L1, L2, L3, and L4 Graphic Design and Implementation
Creating and deploying L1, L2, L3, and L4 graphics for HMIs in industrial control systems. We provide high-level overviews (L1) for quick assessment of plant status, detailed views of specific process units (L2) for primary operations, in-depth subsystem details (L3) for troubleshooting, and support displays (L4) for additional diagnostic tools and analysis. This multi-level approach ensures operators have access to the right information at the right time, enhancing situational awareness, improving decision-making, and supporting efficient plant operations.
 
Conversion and Modernization Services
Assessing current systems, planning and executing upgrades, and ensuring minimal downtime during transitions to newer technologies and standards. Addresses issues such as equipment obsolescence, safety challenges, and the need for improved diagnostics, analytics, security, and connectivity. Enhances operational efficiency, reduces maintenance costs, and improves overall system reliability.
 
Non-Intrusive Simulated Testing
DeltaV Live HMI graphic testing leveraging the actual control strategies with non-intrusive tie-back models to validate the graphics configuration before site installation. This approach reduces the potential for errors, provides a level of operator training and interaction to and ensure system performance and operational safety. 
 
Training Services
Equips operators, engineers, and maintenance staff with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively use DeltaV Live with the High Performance and enhanced HMI graphic displays to improve acceptance and team capabilities. 
 
Start-up Support
Installation and start-up services of the new HMI process graphics to ensure functionality and plant process readiness.

Frequently Asked Questions

DeltaV™ Live is an advanced Human Machine Interface (HMI) developed by Emerson for their DeltaV distributed control system. It provides a highly customizable operator interface designed for modern, high-performance operator requirements.
DeltaV™ Live is used in industrial control environments to improve operator productivity, enhance situational awareness, and streamline graphics configuration. It's particularly useful in complex industrial processes where efficient operator interfaces are crucial for maintaining optimal performance and safety.
Key features include:
  • HTML5 Support: It's the first DCS HMI to natively support HTML5, enabling cross-platform compatibility and mobility.
  • Graphics Configuration: DeltaV™ Live simplifies graphics configuration through its Graphics Studio environment, increasing productivity and reducing reliance on scripting for common tasks.
  • Operator Experience: It offers intuitive display hierarchies, built-in navigation, and customizable layouts to enhance operator efficiency.
  • Multilingual Support: Operators can switch between up to eight languages on the fly, facilitating global operations.
  • Class-based Objects: Engineers can easily update multiple associated files simultaneously by editing a single source object.
  • Alarm Management: DeltaV™ Live includes user-prioritized alarms to help operators focus on critical issues.
  • Trending Capabilities: It provides real-time and historical trending functionalities.
  • Security: The system incorporates built-in security features.
Novaspect offers the following services to improve Operator Situational Awareness:
  • Best Practice Workshops following the ANSI/ISA 101.01-2015 HMI Standard
  • HMI Philosophy and Style Guide Development as part of a project or independently
  • Graphical Elements (GEMs) Library Development
  • L1, L2, L3, and L4 Graphic Design and Implementation
  • Conversion and Modernization Services
  • Non-Intrusive Simulated Testing
  • Training Services
  • Start-up Support
Key Aspects of the standard include: 
  1. HMI Philosophy:  The standard emphasizes the importance of developing an HMI philosophy document that aligns with the unique requirements of each facility.  This philosophy document serves as a foundation for all HMI design and management activities for the site, plant, mill, or facility.
  2. HMI Style Guide:  The standard recommends creating a style guide that outlines best practices for organizing, displaying, and interacting with process data.  This guide ensures consistency and clarity across all HMI displays.
  3. HMI Toolkit: The standard suggests developing a toolkit that includes predefined graphical elements and templates. This toolkit helps streamline the HMI design process and ensures adherence to the established style guide.  For DeltaV, a Graphical Elements Library is included and can be customized to corporate or plant specific requirements.
  4. Lifecycle Management:  The standard covers the entire lifecycle of HMI development, from concept and design through implementation and maintenance. This comprehensive approach helps maintain the effectiveness and usability of HMIs over time.
  5. Display Levels: The standard defines different levels of displays, such as:
    • Level 1: High-level process overviews.
    • Level 2: Process unit operating graphics.
    • Level 3: Detailed process displays.
    • Level 4: Support and diagnostic displays.
  6. Human Factors: The standard incorporates human factors engineering principles to reduce cognitive load on operators and improve situational awareness. This includes using clear, consistent visual elements and minimizing unnecessary information.
By following the guidelines set forth in ISA 101.01-2015, organizations can create HMIs that enhance operator performance, reduce errors, and improve overall safety and efficiency in process automation systems.
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