Designing HMI graphics for Abnormal Situation Management (ASM)
The Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) was created by a Honeywell management consortium in 1994. Its purpose was to find better solutions to certain emergency situations at the manufacturing plant.
The Role of the HMI Designer
As a designer for the HMI software on the production equipment software you need to integrate ASM SCADA/HMI graphics into your programing. These graphics will not only monitor and record the data of the production equipment such as the pumps, switches, tank levels, temperatures, etc, but you also need them to identify any abnormality if ASM occurs. These are any disturbances that occur in a process that can cause the normal plant operations to deviate from their normal operational process. When the operations team notes the HMI warning, they can then identify the cause and correct the issue in a timely manner.
As a Human Machine Interface (HMI) designer you must make design modifications to account for ASM. So you must know what the ASM Honeywell standards are. By reading the ASM standard requirements you can better design the HMI software for this purpose.
We have published an Article on Synergist SCADA Inc:
http://synergistscada.com/asm-4-best-practices-for-operator-display-design/
