Human-machine interface development aims at designing and building software for industrial machinery operation. ScienceSoft delivers HMI solutions that reflect your unique production processes, smoothly integrate with your industrial infrastructure, and speed up operators’ reaction time by 3-4 times.

HMI Software Architecture

At ScienceSoft, we make sure your machinery automation system answers the latest architecture standards:

By integrating HMI with your Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) via cloud-based Web APIs, we provide remote access to HMI software, facilitate data collection, enable data analytics in the cloud, and simplify integration with other software, including SCADA and ERP.

HMI Application Features

Input control

We analyze your workflows and organize input as one-off actions and data recipes (action sets triggered by a single click).

Security

Based on your existing or planned user roles, ScienceSoft creates data access permission levels and data viewing restriction algorithms.

Output monitoring

Our intuitive HMIs promptly deliver key insights in the shape of graphs, animations, logs, pop ups, notifications, etc.

Personalization

ScienceSoft gives users freedom for as much customization as needed to tailor the workflows to the industry and role needs.

ScienceSoft’s HMI Design Samples

Water Pumping Equipment HMI

Brewing Industry Equipment HMI

ScienceSoft’s Approach to HMI Software Development

ISA101 compliance

When designing HMI software, ScienceSoft makes sure that all the HMIs comply with ISA101. This way, our custom HMI applications provide high situational awareness and intuitive machinery control for equipment operators.

PoC development

Based on use case scenarios, our interactive PoCs allow you to test what it would feel like to perform key operations and navigate through your custom HMI. Real operators’ feedback and requests for tweaks and changes is paramount here.

Smooth integration

We integrate HMI apps with PLC (or machinery via Raspberry Pi), MES, and SCADA. What’s more, we offer integration with cloud databases (for collection and analysis of production process data) and ERP (for labor efficiency tracking).

Why ScienceSoft

34 years in manufacturing and custom software development.
30+ business analysts and consultants with 5-9 years of expertise.
15+ seasoned UX and UI designers, adherence to ISA101 regulations.
550+ developers, more than 50% of them are Seniors.
ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 27001 (security management) certificates.
AWS and Azure partnerships.
Quality-first approach and a mature security management system backed up by ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications.
For the second straight year, ScienceSoft USA Corporation is listed among The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies by the Financial Times.

Get Higher Production Results with Tailored HMI!

Reach out to ScienceSoft’s consultants who will analyze your HMI needs or an existing HMI solution, calculate your ROI, and help you finalize the concept of your new HMI.

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HMI Development Process

HMI Project Conceptualization

Timing: 1–3 weeks

Our business consultants schedule 2–3 conversations with your representatives to understand your existing or planned workflows and IT infrastructure. Collaborating closely with your stakeholders, they define key requirements for the HMI development project.

Project planning

Timing: 2–3 weeks

The elicited requirements lay the basis for scoping the project’s tasks, planning the workflow in detail, and preparing accurate time and cost estimates. We also introduce custom sets of KPIs to objectively measure HMI development efficiency.

UX Research and GUI Design

Timing: 2–4 weeks

ScienceSoft’s UX experts conduct user research, create user personas, draft story maps, and perform usability testing to design UX wireframes of the HMI. When reshaping them into UI mockups, our UI designers prioritize color/image coding over text to facilitate operation.

Proof of Concept Development

Timing: 3–6 weeks

Using the finalized designs, ScienceSoft’s HMI developers can launch implementation of a PoC – a simplified interactive version of your future HMI solution. The PoC allows for effective usability testing and enables fast and risk-free tweaks to both design and functionality.

HMI Software Development and QA

Timing: from 3 weeks

After receiving and analyzing your operators’ feedback on the PoC, ScienceSoft’s HMI developers start implementation of the actual HMI solution. We rely on Agile, Lean, and DevOps processes as well as combine manual and automated testing to ensure speedy and quality HMI software delivery. Our team reports the progress regularly to keep you updated on the completed tasks.

Integration

Timing: 1–2 weeks

ScienceSoft’s engineers make HMIs an inherent part of your industrial infrastructure and integrate it with your HMI hardware of choice, PCs, smartphones and tablets, or even wearables. We provide all necessary HMI documentation to facilitate solution maintenance and can conduct employee training.