Poorly designed and poorly performing Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs - and particularly the graphics used for process control) are rampant throughout our industries. They can degrade safety, production, quality, and profitability. Time after time they are cited as contributing factors to major industrial accidents.
This webinar covers the many existing poor practices and design oversights embodied in process control HMIs, and provides examples of much improved methods. The subjects covered are:
· The current state of industrial HMIs and process graphics
· High Performance HMI justification
· Common but ineffective process graphics
· The tired, overused, and underperforming “P&ID Paradigm”
· Proper display of information, rather than of just data
· Proper use and depiction of analog vs. digital information
· High Performance graphic principles
· High Performance graphic elements
· High Performance graphic hierarchy
· The 7-Step High Performance HMI Development Process
This webinar will detail the need, the proper design, and the implementation of an optimal HMI for process operators and the automation systems used to control complex process operations. The webinar includes a copy of The High Performance HMI Handbook, the first comprehensive book to be published on the topic, containing over 200 pages and over 90 color illustrations.
WEBINAR INSTRUCTOR: Bill Hollifield
Bill Hollifield will present the webinar. He is PAS’s (
www.pas.com) principal consultant on HMI and Alarm management, and is the co-author of
The High Performance HMI Handbook and
The Alarm Management Handbook. He has over 30 years experience in engineering, operations, control systems, HMI design, and alarm management. He is a co-author of the recent ISA-18.2 standard on Alarm Management for the Process Industries, the Electric Power Research Institute’s Alarm Management Guidelines, and the pending American Petroleum Institute’s RP1167 Recommended Practices for Pipeline Alarm Management.
Bill is the Principal Consultant responsible for the PAS work processes, intellectual property and software product directions in the areas of both Alarm Management and High Performance HMI (Human-Machine Interface, i.e. process control graphics).
He is a member of the American Petroleum Institute’s API RP-1167 Alarm Management Recommended Practice committee, the ISA SP-18 Alarm Management committee, the ISA SP101 HMI committee, the, and the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association (EEMUA) Industry Review Group.
Bill has multi-company, international experience in all aspects of Alarm Management and HMI development. He has 26 years of experience in the petrochemical industry in engineering and operations, and an additional 7 years in alarm management and HMI software and services for the petrochemical, power generation, pipeline, and mining industries.
Bill is co-author of :
· The Alarm Management Handbook, © PAS 2006
· The High Performance HMI Handbook, © PAS 2008
· The ISA book: Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance, © ISA 2007
· The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) guideline on Alarm Management, released in 2008.
Bill has authored several papers on Alarm Management and HMI, and is a regular presenter on such topics in such venues as API, ISA, and Electric Power symposiums. He has a BSME from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA from the University of Houston.
