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News Release from: ISA:Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
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HMI standards committee plans work
schedule
The ISA Human-Machine Interface Standards committee has identified 5 key areas, based on their scope statement, on which their standard will be focused
The ISA Human-Machine Interface Standards committee has identified 5 key areas, based on their scope statement, on which their standard will be focused They will divide into working groups next week at the ISA Expo in Houston, Texas, to work on the development of each topic
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The topics that the committee will focus on are information display, process visualisation, user interaction, performance, and documentation and training.
"We've reached a point in our work where dividing up into working groups makes a lot of sense," said co-chair Joe Bingham of Advanced Process Solutions.
"We're confident that with our focus on these key areas of the standard, we'll be able to work quickly and effectively and produce a standard from which the industry will benefit".
Surveys completed early in the development of the committee indicated a high level of interest in HMI standards from user companies, vendor companies, and consultants.
The standard will establish software-based HMI design criteria for industrial control and information systems.
The standard would also define requirements for the evaluation, design, development, implementation and maintenance of efficient, effective, safe, and user-friendly HMIs.
"This standard will enable users to reduce operator mistakes and misinterpretations, reduce the learning curve for new operators, and allow operators to move from one system to another with minimal retraining without impacts to individual HMI vendors' competitive identity," said SP101 Managing Director, Erwin Icayan of ACES.
The committee will hold open meetings next week in Houston.
Sessions are planned for Monday, October 16th from 0800 to 1700, Tuesday, October 17th from 1300-1700 and Wednesday, October 18th from 1300-1700 at the Reliant Center.
Anyone interested in the work of the committee is invited to attend the meetings.
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