HIMA, the world’s main supplier of safety-related automation options, and DEUTA, a specialist in licensed show and security expertise, have collectively launched a brand new answer, SafeHMI, that mixes HIMA security techniques and performance block libraries with a safety-related human-machine interface (HMI) panel based mostly on IconTrust expertise.
The revolutionary answer units new requirements in safety-related visualization, providing context-sensitive alarm administration, protected operation and show monitoring in accordance with SIL 3 (IEC 61508) and has been persistently designed with an intention to fulfill useful security necessities.
Whereas traditional SCADA techniques and MIMIC panels typically attain their limits in safety-critical purposes, SafeHMI delivers clear, prioritized info – precisely the place it’s required.
“With DEUTA, we have now a expertise companion with a long time of expertise within the discipline of safety-related shows, particularly within the rail and transport sectors,” stated Jörg de la Motte, CEO of the HIMA Group. “With SafeHMI, we’re creating an answer that makes useful security within the industrial setting seen, controllable and digitally manageable.”
Dynamic alarm show and safe enter processes
On the coronary heart of the system is the dynamic alarm show, which reduces the burden on operators throughout fault conditions. Related alarms are robotically prioritized, together with concise directions for motion and restricted to a most of 4 simultaneous entries. This ensures that an outline is maintained, even in vital moments and working errors are averted.
The answer permits to make inputs, acknowledgements or protected overrides instantly by means of the contact panel – examined, documented and validated in accordance with SIL 2/3. Which means that upkeep features or recipe modifications could be carried out digitally and documented in an auditable method. Bernd Schäfer, Product Supervisor at HIMA, stated: “With SafeHMI, we’re taking show and working logic to a brand new degree of security. In vital conditions, operators not solely obtain info, but in addition clear directions for motion and so they can depend on what they see being correct.”
Show with a assure of reliability – because of IconTrust
A key security function is the IconTrust expertise developed by DEUTA. It constantly displays display screen content material and reliably detects any deviations between the displayed and anticipated values. This makes the show itself an lively security ingredient that’s licensed as much as SIL 3 , providing operators most reliability.
Totally built-in into the HIMA Security platform
The SafeHMI answer is absolutely built-in into the HIMA Security Platform. Configuration, modifications and enhancements are carried out utilizing standardized perform blocks, that are supplied as a part of an authorized library. This makes SafeHMI an essential part of HIMA’s #safetygoesdigital initiative, with which the corporate is driving digitalizing of the complete life cycle of safety-related techniques and their peripherals.
“In partnership with HIMA, we are able to now present generic security expertise for working and show models used within the railway sector with over 30,000 models for brand spanking new fields of utility for which no comparable answer has been accessible so far. Together with the HIMA security system, the applying potentialities are virtually limitless,” stated Dr Rudolf Ganz, CEO of the DEUTA Group and DEUTA-WERKE.