"Guest blogger” Bill Hollifield
“There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology – the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.”
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
In November 2006, Automation World published an article beginning with“If you’re seeking best-practices standards for designing graphical operator-interface displays, you won’t find them.” They were right – then – but not now. Because we were already hard at work...
Over 200 pages. Over 90 color illustrations. Over 45 references. Over two years of effort and collaboration, reflecting well more than 100 person-years of experience. Two companies and four authors. And now it is done! PAS is proud to announce the publication of The High Performance HMI Handbook.
In 2006 we published The Alarm Management Handbook – and were amazed at the positive response. The industry was clearly in need of detailed, proven methods to solve their alarm management problems. Well, proper alarm management solves only part of the problem. Poorly designed and poorly performing Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) 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.
The High Performance HMI Handbook is the first book that puts together the principles for assessing, designing, and implementing proper process control HMIs. It contains experience and intellectual property that has never before been released. In this book we step up and explain the common bad practices (ouch!), why they are bad, (double ouch!) and show in great detail the best way to design and implement a truly High Performance HMI.
And in addition, we include control-system related quotes that range from NASA personnel to Dolly Parton to the Beach Boys! (No kidding.) The book contains lots of relevant real world examples, anecdotes, and surprises. It is not your usual boring engineering text!
Whether you are a project engineer building a new control system, a manager looking to improve process safety and productivity, or a plant manager trying to impact company culture and at the same time impact company profitability, you will find tremendous value in The High Performance HMI Handbook.
So check out the HMI book webpage, check out the full Table of Contents (to see why it took so long!), and order now - soon to be at major online booksellers!
Drop us a note and let us know what you think about the book.
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