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Published inMar 2023
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Mason White
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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
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HMI design

The first thing we should do is lay out our HMI. Based on the requirements, we are going to need the following at the minimum:

  • An alarm table
  • A series of inputs to allow the user to input the temperature of the oven
  • A gauge to show the current temperature of the oven
  • A power switch and LED for the oven
  • An LED for the following:
    • Oven ramping up to temperature
    • Oven at temperature
  • An alarm acknowledgment button

With the requirements, we can lay out our HMI to look like the following screenshot:

Figure 15.1 – Oven HMI

Figure 15.1 – Oven HMI

This is a simple HMI layout for our project. We have a simple Power button in the lower left-hand corner with a ramp-up and target temperature spinner above it. In the center of the screen, we have an alarm table for our alarm readout as well as three LEDs to indicate that the oven is on, another LED to indicate that the temperature of the oven is human-safe, and finally, an LED to indicate that...

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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804612880

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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
Read more about Mason White