Automation technology, which is widely used in industry, has brought changes to modern manufacturing enterprises. And standardized production and increasingly fierce market competition, also let more industrial automated production opened the digital transformation. Many enterprises often face some challenges in the process of digital transformation:

How to effectively collect production data from field equipment and explore its value?
How to efficiently schedule different automation systems to work together?
How to achieve a seamless integration of industrial operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) to complement the strengths of both?
We often hear of HMI solutions helping manufacturing companies transform digitally, as they serve as the data hub of the factory to help companies better meet these three challenges.

The traditional HMI is known as the Human Machine Interface, which generally refers to the industrial panel used by operators to monitor and operate equipment. Today’s HMI is interpreted as Human Machine Interaction. Conceptually, HMI can be extended to industrial visualization system, which includes a series of hardware and software product combinations at the industrial operation level. In addition, human-computer interaction also emphasizes the feedback interaction effect of visual system on people, namely user friendliness and user experience.

Riding the industrial wind of Siemens Technology

Rooted in the soil of China, what kind of flowers will be opened?

Faced with the development of HMI industry, how does Siemens as a technology company do? The first thing to mention is Siemens’ rich product line.

Siemens SIMATIC HMI includes two categories of hardware and software products. It is one of the core products of Siemens factory automation. Its advanced technology and reliability reflect Siemens’ consistent craftsman spirit of excellence.

HMI hardware provides us with visual Windows, including the familiar Wonderful panel, Thin Panel, Smart panel, and Unified Smart Panel; HMI software refers to PC-based HMI, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), and industrial operation layer software products, etc. These include TIA Portal (WinCC), SIMATIC WinCC, WinCC OA, SIMATIC Energy Management, and Braumat/Sistar.

It is fair to say that we have the right products to meet the needs of our customers for any scale project.

SIMATIC, which integrates Siemens PLC, HMI and industrial communications, plays an important role in facilitating the digital transformation of many Chinese enterprises. One successful case — the National Speed Skating Hall is a good example of how we know what customers want and help customers solve problems efficiently.

As an important venue for international competitions, the National Speed Skating Stadium has the largest all-ice surface design in Asia, which has high requirements on the ice surface — the ice temperature control requirements are different for different sports.

In order to centrally manage the running state of the control system and auxiliary equipment in the stadium, SIMATIC WinCC, a Siemens SCADA system with high reliability and flexibility, is adopted in the stadium. With it, you can see what’s going on all over the ice. Combined with Siemens redundant and safe PLC based automatic control system, different units of the whole ice surface can be independent temperature control, and according to different competition events on the ice surface for sub-area, sub-standard ice.

In addition, the Energy management software SIMATIC Energy Manager Pro, as the core of the energy management solution in the ice-making system, sustainably monitors and evaluates the operating efficiency of the equipment, realizes the energy consumption visualization of the venue, and provides data support for further decision-making and implementation of energy-saving measures. It embodies the world’s leading scientific and technological elements and low-carbon elements of the National speed skating Hall.