The High Performance HMI Handbook is the first and only comprehensive book containing the best-practice principles for assessing, designing, and implementing proper process control Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs). Poorly designed and poorly performing Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are rampant throughout the process industries. They can degrade safety, production, quality, and profitability. Time after time, they are cited as contributing factors to major industrial accidents.
The book contains experience and intellectual property that has never before been released, It is jointly authored by 2 companies, PAS and User Centered Design Services (UCDS), who have decades of experience in process control, HMI design, and human factors. The book reveals many poor yet common HMI practices, provides the justification for change, and shows in great detail the best way to design and implement a truly High Performance HMI. It contains over 90 color illustrations, plus many relevant real world examples, anecdotes, and surprises. This is not your usual boring engineering text!
The HMI principles covered in this book apply to petrochemical, refining, power generation, pharmaceutical, and other industries where operators use modern control systems with computer-based control displays. Whether you are a project engineer designing or improving a control system or a manager looking to improve process safety, productivity, and profitability, you will find tremendous value in The High Performance HMI Handbook.
Bill Hollifield Bill is a Principal Consultant for PAS responsible for the alarm management work processes products, intellectual property, and software product direction. He is a voting member of the ISA SP-18 Alarm Management committee and co-author of The Alarm Management Handbook (and the ISA version of the same book, Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance). Bill has many years of chemical industry experience with focus in project management, chemical production, and DCS control systems.
Bill holds a Bachelor s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University, and an MBA from the University of Houston. He is a pilot and builds furniture (and the occasional log home in the Ozarks) as a hobby.
Dana Oliver Dana is a Principal HMI Consultant at PAS. He has multi-company, international experience in all aspects of HMI. At PAS, Dana is responsible for the HMI work processes, intellectual property, and project implementations. He is a voting member of the ISA SP-101 HMI standards committee.
Besides HMI, Dana has 18 years of chemical industry experience with focus in automation, project management, production, and control systems configuration and implementation. Prior to PAS, Dana was the System Engineering Discipline Lead Engineer for Honeywell s Houston engineering center. Prior to Honeywell, Dana was a Production Engineer for Union Carbide Corporation.
Dana holds a Bachelor s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Ian Nimmo Ian is President and a founder of User Centered Design Services, an ASM service provider. He served 10 years as a Senior Engineering Fellow and was a founder and Program Director for the ASM Consortium®, Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control. Before joining Honeywell, he worked for 25 years as an instrument/electrical engineer, and computer applications manager for Imperial Chemical Industries in the U.K.
Ian has specialized in computer control safety for over 20 years, and has extensive experience in batch control and continuous operations. He developed the control hazard operability methodology (ChazOp) during his time at ICI and has written over 150 papers and contributed to several books on the subject. Ian studied electrical and electronic engineering at Teesside (U.K.) University and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Senior Member of the ISA, and a member of NSPE.
Eddie Habibi Eddie is the Founder and CEO of Houston-based PAS, an industry leading, world-wide supplier of process automation, alarm management, asset management, and HMI-related products and services. Eddie has an engineering degree from the University of Houston and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, and coauthored The Alarm Management Handbook.
Eddie is a recognized industry thought leader in the areas of critical condition management, automation asset management, alarm management, and operator effectiveness. Under his leadership, PAS continues to grow profitably as an agile organization known for its strong culture of customer focus and significant innovation.
