Screens your operators
will actually use.
HMI and SCADA systems designed around the operator — their workflow, their priorities, their decision-making process under pressure.
Colorful graphics that look impressive but slow operators down when it matters most.
- —200 alarms per shift, most ignored
- —Six clicks to reach the right screen
- —Raw numbers with no context
Situation awareness at a glance. The right information, in the right place, every time.
- Actionable alarms with response procedures
- One-click navigation to any screen
- Values shown with setpoint and limits
Most SCADA projects fail at the design level, not the technical level. The platform works fine. The tags update. The historian logs data. But the operator screens are cluttered, the alarm list is a wall of noise, and the navigation requires six clicks to get to the one graphic that matters during a fault.
We design HMI and SCADA systems around the operator — their workflow, their priorities, their decision-making process under pressure. Situation awareness, not situation decoration. Every element on the screen earns its place.
The best SCADA system is the one your operators trust — the one that shows the right information at the right time so they can make a fast, confident decision.
Not the most features,
the most useful.
Six capabilities,
one integrated system.
High-Performance HMI Design
Operator graphics designed according to ISA-101 and high-performance HMI principles. Grayscale process graphics with color used only to indicate abnormal conditions. Analog values displayed with context — setpoint, operating range, alarm limits — so the operator can assess process health at a glance. Every element on the screen earns its place. If it doesn't help the operator detect, diagnose, or respond to a condition, it doesn't belong.
Every operation
that needs visibility.
If your operators need to monitor, control, or respond to a process — they need a system designed for that purpose.
Manufacturing Plants
Line-level and plant-wide SCADA for discrete and process manufacturing. Real-time production visibility, alarming, and historian data for troubleshooting and optimization.
Water and Wastewater
Municipal and industrial water treatment, distribution, and collection system SCADA. Remote pump station monitoring, treatment process control, and regulatory reporting.
Oil and Gas
Wellhead monitoring, pipeline SCADA, compressor station control, and tank farm management. Distributed architectures for geographically spread assets with centralized control rooms.
Energy and Utilities
Substation monitoring, generation facility control, and distributed energy resource management. Grid-edge visibility and NERC CIP-aware architectures.
Food and Beverage
Batch process visualization, CIP monitoring, production tracking, and quality data capture. Designed for food safety compliance and rapid product changeover.
Pharmaceuticals
21 CFR Part 11 compliant systems with electronic signatures, audit trails, and batch record integration. Validated SCADA environments for GMP manufacturing.
From operator workflow
to live system.
Understand the operation.
We start by observing how your operators actually work — not how the P&IDs say they should. Which screens do they live on? What data do they wish they had? What alarms do they ignore? Where do they keep the sticky notes that patch the gaps in the current system? The design starts here.
Design the graphics and architecture.
Screen hierarchy, navigation structure, graphic layouts, alarm philosophy, and system architecture — documented and reviewed before development begins. We present mockups of key operator screens for review so the team that will use the system has input before it's built.
Develop and configure.
Tag configuration, graphic development, alarm setup, historian configuration, reporting templates, and security model. Development happens on a staging server that mirrors the production architecture so there are no surprises at deployment.
Test and validate.
Point-to-point verification of every tag, alarm test against defined setpoints, historian data integrity checks, and report validation. For regulated environments, testing follows an IQ/OQ protocol with documented evidence.
Deploy and train.
On-site deployment, cutover from legacy systems if applicable, and hands-on operator training. Training isn't a slideshow — it's operators using the real system on the real process with an engineer standing behind them to answer questions.
Platforms we work with.
We recommend the platform that fits your environment and team — not the one we have a partnership with.
Operator-centered,
not feature-centered.
Designed for the operator, not the demo.
Most SCADA screens are designed to look impressive in a sales presentation. Ours are designed to look useful at 3 AM when a fault just tripped the line. Grayscale process graphics with color reserved for abnormal conditions, trend-centric layouts, and navigation that gets the operator to the right screen in one click. ISA-101 high-performance principles applied rigorously — not as a marketing checkbox.
Platform-agnostic recommendation.
We work across Ignition, FactoryTalk, WinCC, AVEVA, and GE platforms. We recommend the platform that fits your environment, not the one we have a partnership with. If your plant is standardized on Rockwell, we build on FactoryTalk. If you're starting fresh or need web-based access and flexible licensing, we'll tell you Ignition is the better choice.
Alarm management built in, not bolted on.
We don't design the SCADA system and then deal with alarms as a remediation project two years later. Alarm philosophy, rationalization, and configuration happen during the design phase — so the system goes live with a manageable alarm load from day one. Every alarm has a documented purpose, a defined priority, and a response procedure before the first operator sits down.
We migrate, not just replace.
Legacy SCADA migrations are planned to minimize production disruption. We redesign graphics to high-performance standards during migration — not just convert the old screens to a new platform. Cutovers happen during planned maintenance windows with parallel operation until confidence is established.
Straight answers.
If your plant is heavily standardized on Rockwell hardware and your team is trained on FactoryTalk, there's a case for staying in that ecosystem. For most other situations — especially new projects, multi-vendor environments, or facilities that need web-based access and flexible licensing — Ignition is our recommendation. We'll give you an honest assessment based on your specific situation.
Yes. We frequently redesign HMI graphics on existing platforms — converting cluttered, colorful screens to high-performance displays without changing the underlying system. This is one of the highest-ROI projects in automation because it directly improves operator effectiveness on equipment you've already paid for.
We start with an alarm performance assessment — how many alarms per hour, how many standing alarms, which alarms chatter, which ones are never acknowledged. Then we rationalize: remove nuisance alarms, adjust setpoints, add deadbands, implement state-based suppression, and document the remaining alarms with clear response procedures. The goal is a system where every alarm means something and requires action.
SCADA cybersecurity is addressed through network architecture, not afterthought bolt-ons. We design segmented networks with industrial DMZs, enforce role-based access control, and implement audit logging. For facilities subject to NERC CIP, IEC 62443, or similar frameworks, compliance requirements are built into the architecture from the start.
Yes. We migrate from RSView32 to FactoryTalk View SE or Optix, Wonderware InTouch to AVEVA or Ignition, iFIX to modern platforms, and other aging SCADA systems. Migration scope includes tag database conversion, graphic redesign to high-performance standards, alarm reconfiguration, historian transition, and operator training. Cutovers are planned for maintenance windows to minimize production disruption.
For operations with multiple facilities, we design enterprise SCADA architectures with centralized visibility and local control. Ignition's Gateway Network and hub-and-spoke architecture are particularly well-suited — each site runs independently, and the central gateway aggregates data for corporate dashboards and reporting. The architecture is designed so a network outage between sites doesn't affect local operations.
Need better visibility into your operation?
Whether it's a new SCADA system, a screen redesign, an alarm management overhaul, or a migration from a legacy platform — tell us what you're working with.