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Advanced Process Graphics
Our Advanced Process Graphics™ (APG) HMI solution gives you the tools you need to create state-of-the-art operating graphics for your facility. The APG solution incorporates the latest industry standards and best-practices, combined with numerous innovations designed specifically to maximize operators’ situation awareness and effectiveness in responding to both routine and abnormal events.
The APG solution combines an extensive Object Library with a unique Operator Dashboard, together with Design Tools intended to maximize the efficiency of your graphics design effort.
We offer full support for deployment of the APG solution including comprehensive HMI design services as well as technical support for configuration and integration.
APG Design Suite
The APG Design Suite includes tools that allow designers to rapidly layout and configure display pages, thus dramatically increasing the efficiency of implementation.
- Easy to use, drag-and-drop design environment requires minimal training and allows easy sharing, commenting, and revision of draft designs
- Design tools are independent of DCS hardware/software, allowing design to proceed before or in parallel with DCS implementation
- Objects can be configured automatically at design time by linking to your tag database
- Completed page layouts can be automatically translated to the DCS environment in seconds, dramatically reducing implementation time
Object Library
- A full range of instrumentation objects that actively assist operators in interpreting process data by including visual cues for key contextual information such as alarm limits, controller setpoints, and normal operating ranges
- A full range of equipment objects incorporating features designed to assist operators in assessing status of valves, drives, and other common and specialized equipment types
- Unique operator aids for tracking process values and controller outputs
- Extensive use of compact analog presentation formats to promote rapid visual scanning of process status and high information density
- Availability of complex, “information-rich” visualizations (e.g., ‘spiderweb’ diagrams) that can be used to show high-level process status summaries
- Built-in standardization of elements such as text styles and color schemes to ensure consistency with best practices and principles
Operator Dashboard
The APG Operator Dashboard combines faceplates, navigation functions, and access to auxiliary information, such as trends and alarm details, in a single dedicated panel, providing operators with a unified control zone. Major features include:
- Enhanced faceplates designed to complement the APG instrumentation and equipment objects
- The ability to view enhanced alarm information and operator guidance for diagnosis and response activities
- Trending tools
- Interlock information
- Alarm information integrated into a navigation tools that allows operators to immediately focus on the most important HMI pages
- Navigation to any page in the operator’s span of control in a maximum of 2 clicks
- Links to auxiliary information such as interlock details, point details, P&IDs, logs, and third-party applications
Performance by Design
Through the practical, principled application of human factors engineering and user-centered design techniques, we create tools and environments that allow your operations team to perform at their best.
HMI Solutions
Realizing the full benefits of any HMI requires careful design of the information format, content and organization of the graphics pages. UIX provides a full range of services & products to support high performance graphics. We employ a user-centered design process that goes beyond P&IDs to tap into the knowledge and experience of your personnel. We involve users early in design, which increases engagement and acceptance, and results in more robust designs requiring fewer post-implementation changes.
About UIX
We take pride in developing a deep understanding of every client’s needs and goals. Our team’s broad expertise enables us to deliver solutions that are effective, sustainable and fit-for-purpose.