COMMENT COPA-DATA
HMI excellence for Original Equipment Manufacturers
Emilian Axinia, director of industry management sustainability Solutions and F&B at automation supplier COPA-DATA examines the current HMI challenges of OEMs in the food & beverage industry.
brought numerous challenges. Supply chains were disturbed and reaching customers suddenly became
W From this challenging experience, the industry
learned to invest in being more resilient and more innovative. Further, sustainability goals are a great common purpose with which we all want to engage.
It is inspiring to see how manufacturing is
transforming towards Net Zero targets. Increasing energy costs further strengthened the focus on setting higher optimization ambitions. Plus, many companies are facing the challenge to extend and upskill their workforce. e all must change if we want change journey needs strong leadership and the newest technologies, alongside product, process and business model innovation.
TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMATION Automation and digitalisation technologies deliver highly impactful and proven tools. How do you leverage them in a way so that your company can
14 October 2024 Irish Manufacturing
e’ve experienced a great deal of change in recent years. At a global level, the Covid-19 pandemic
successfully meet the challenges of our times and create new opportunities for your business? shares our experience with leading OEMs and Food & Beverage manufacturing companies. We wrote a guide for you, with our focus on a key part of every machine or piece of equipment used in the Food & Beverage industry: the human machine interface (HMI). For your end customer, the way the machine
is operated strongly impacts their return on investment (ROI) and the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of their entire production line. and the machine’s lifecycle. An HMI is much more than what it was a decade
ago: it does much more for your end customer. between production teams and sophisticated processes.
5 PRINCIPLES FOR HMI EXCELLENCE equipment producer should embrace when creating the best HMI for their machines. Discover how your
choice of HMI software enables excellence. 1. Reduce dependencies, by design: Unbundle solutions based on technologies with different lifecycles and uncertain availability to provide your customers with long-lasting equipment. 2. Create an HMI which makes your machine special: Go beyond the expected features. Your machine can implement more capabilities if you use automation and digitalization technology more intelligently to add value for your end customers. 3. Create the best experience for machine operators: Invest in radical empathy toward every HMI user – from operators to maintenance engineers and process specialists. 4. Enable easy integration: Your machine can be smarter and better connected when you seek to go beyond automation to implement digital transformation for you and your end customers. 5. Engineering solutions for now and forever: How you engineer your machine today will affect how you maintain and update it tomorrow. By optimizing your machine’s lifecycle, you not only reduce costs and address resource scarcity, you enable a more sustainable future. Please reach out, we are delighted to hear your feedback and learn about your own experiences.
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