Consistent HMI Development

The coating machines from KROENERT are undisputedly regarded as the benchmark of the industry. Not long ago, however, the operation of the machines was thought to no longer do justice to the technological class of the systems. In other words, a modern HMI was needed to underline the company's role as market leader.

Team UXMA came into play to resolve this issue and the aim switched from contemporary to pioneering. Together with our customer, we have developed KROENERT ProLine, a line operating system that sets the benchmark itself and thus puts the overall product far ahead of the competition.

• Stand-alone solution of the panel (support arm connection or directly to the machine)

• Can be combined and expanded with control panel

• Scalable work and function area (easy adaptation of monitors, tablets or terminal boards)

• Clear console work area with uniform arrangement of important buttons and switches

• Movable and tiltable touch-panel holder

• Configurable recording of data trends

• Two width variants: 600 mm, 1,200 mm

Whether control, maintenance or fault diagnosis – the machine operators of a KROENERT system must be able to act quickly and effectively in every situation. In an extensive needs analysis and ideation phase, we adopted this user perspective and rethought the interaction concept for the entire product family: ProLine opens up a maximum of user-oriented, intuitive operability, ergonomics, expandability and safety. Touch gestures enable users to quickly navigate through the image, rotary encoders are used to support image navigation and robust hardware push-buttons enable fast, direct intervention in the system control. The data- and model-driven concept for module-based project planning, which is hidden behind the user interface on the software side, enables an unimaginable degree of flexibility in the individual composition of the components and data streams to be displayed. This modular system combines a high degree of individualization through freely configurable dashboards, different navigation paths and different work views with a consistent operating philosophy and a uniform look & feel.