As a hardware engineer or OEM, you are quickly inclined to opt for standard touch displays and panel PCs to create a human-machine interface. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that added value is created when you do not start from a standard design for HMIs, but opt for customisation instead. This added value is created when you take the actual usage situation and environmental influences as your starting point.
In this presentation, Kjell Decorte and Jurgen Jacobs demonstrate how the transition from supply-driven to application-driven development leads to fit-for-purpose automation hardware that is practical, scalable, future-proof, and cost-effective, even for small-scale series production. They discuss how factors such as component construction, mechanical integration, environmental conditions and delivery reliability determine the design of modern and future-proof automation hardware.
The common thread is co-creation within the OEM chain. Early collaboration based on practical thinking results in functional, sustainable and reliable solutions. When manufacturing companies and their suppliers develop industrial hardware based on this approach, the result is not a collection of components in a housing, but a logical solution that stems from practical experience and is supported by proven results and targeted innovation.
This short session provides visitors with insight into application-oriented development of HMI and automation hardware and demonstrates why customisation primarily leads to solutions that are better suited to the application and perform more reliably in practice.