ISA101: Human Machine Interfaces

for Process Automation Systems

What It Is and What It Isnt and Whats Coming
Dr. Maurice J. Wilkins
VP Strategic Technology Marketing
Yokogawa Electric Corporation
Co-chair ISA101 Committee

maurice.wilkins@us.yokogawa.com

Dr. Maurice J. Wilkins

Vice president of Yokogawas Strategic
Technology Marketing Center
37 years of experience in human factors, batch
solutions, procedural operations, HMI design,
advanced process control, benchmarking
analysis and the chemicals and refining
industries
ISA Fellow, Chartered Engineer in the UK, a
Fellow of the UK IChemE and represents them
in the USA as a Senior Ambassador and a
Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and
Control
Inducted into the Process Automation Hall of
Fame in 2011

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Operator Interfaces Have Changed

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Split Second Decisions

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Split Second Decisions

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Now Try Operating a Plant the Same Way!

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Is This a Good Operator Interface?

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Call for a Standard

Users
Responsible for safe and productive operation of equipment and
facility
Live with the HMI and support it for its lifetime
Integrators, Designers, Engineers
Design and build the HMI applications
Commission the HMI, and the associated process
Suppliers
Develop the software and hardware needed to build the HMI
Develop the interfaces/drivers needed for an HMI to transfer data
and information to and from multiple sources

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Purpose of the Standard

Address the design, implementation, and maintenance of human

machine interfaces (HMIs) for process automation systems, to:
Provide guidance to design, build, and maintain HMIs which result
in more effective and efficient control of the process, in both
normal and abnormal situations
Improve the users abilities to detect, diagnose, and properly
respond to abnormal situations
Look at the HMI holistically not just the display
Lifecycle approach

A Standard is the What

A Technical Report is the How

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Scope of the Standard

Addresses HMIs for automated processes to improve safety, quality, and

productivity

Identifies documentation and design practices that will lead to more effective
and maintainable HMI implementations

Practices in this standard are intended to be applicable to continuous, batch,

and discrete processes

Devices excluded the committee agreed to limit the scope to hardware of a

minimum size

No PDAs, smart phones, hand held devices included in this version of the standard
(see later)

NOTE: The standard cannot recommend the use of commercial standards or

documents such as the ASM Guidelines, HPHMI Handbook etc

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ISA 101 Standard Committee - Leadership

The current co-chairs of ISA101 HMI Committee are:
Dr. Maurice Wilkins (Yokogawa) and Greg Lehmann (AECOM)
The standard is organized into the following sections:
Clause Title

Leaders

General

MauriceWilkins,Yokogawa

Scope

MauriceWilkins,Yokogawa

NormativeReferences

NickSands,Dupont&DaleReed,Rockwell

DefinitionofTermsandAcronyms NickSands,Dupont&DaleReed,Rockwell

HMISystemManagement

BridgetFitzpatrick,WoodGroupMustang
&IanNimmo,UCDS,Inc

HumanFactors/Ergonomics

BethVail, AECOM &TraciLaabs,Pfizer

DisplayStylesandHierarchy

DaveLee,UCDS,Inc&
JohnBenitz,GrayMatterSystems

UserInteraction

BridgetFitzpatrick,WoodGroupMustang
&AlanBryant,OxyInc.

Performance

DocumentationandTraining

MarkNixon, EmersonProcess
Management
DawnSchweitzer,EastmanKodak

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ISA 101 Standard Committee

Committee formed in 2006 to establish standards,

recommended practices, and/or technical reports
for designing, implementing, using, and/or
managing human machine interfaces in process
automation applications
Committee makeup
As of December 2nd, 2015

members 247

Producer (Supplier)
29.6%
User
25.0%
Integrator, Eng & Construction
34.2%
General (Academic, Government, Consultant etc.) 11.2%
Worldwide participation in review process

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The Path to ISA 101

Draft 4 was sent out for a one month review by the full committee at the
end of June 2013

This was a should/shall requirements survey

There were 20 requirements (shall) & 285 recommendations (should)

suggested
67 committee members responded
The overall average was 85% acceptance of the
requirements/recommendations as written

The standard was sent out for ballot in June 2014 and although it
passed it received significant comments
It took two face to face meetings and until March 2015 to resolve these
comments

A short re-ballot was needed to see if anyone wanted to change their

vote per ISA procedures
The 2 (from 34) who voted against, changed their vote to positive, so
the end result was unanimously in favor
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ANSI/ISA-101.01-2015

Started in 2006 but no clear direction

Major step forward when we decided to use a lifecycle
approach as ISA84 and ISA18.2 had done
Users and suppliers were asking for the standard and
some had already been using it
After many thousands of comments.and several
major revisions.
ISA101 became an ANSI/ISA standard in July, 2015

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What IS ISA101?

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HMI Basic Definitions

Fundamental standard
terminology
Console
Operator Station
Monitor
Screen
Display
Pop-up
Element
Necessary to enable common
understanding

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Life Cycle Concept for HMI

The life cycle model is a foundation for the standard
CONTINUOUS WORK PROCESSES
MOC
ENTRY

New System
Major Changes

Validation

Audit
ENTRY

New Display
Display Changes

SYSTEM
STANDARDS
Philosophy
Style Guide
Toolkits

Continuous
Improvement

DESIGN

IMPLEMENT

OPERATE

User, Task,
Functional
Requirements

Build Displays

In Service

Build Console

Maintain

Console Design

Test

Decommission

HMI System
Design

Train

Continuous
Improvement

Commission
Display Design

Qualification

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Life Cycle Concept - Stages

System Standards
Documents that set the foundation for all HMI design decisions
Design
All hardware and software aspects of the HMI
Implement
Creation of the HMI in the target platform and hardware
Operate
Includes the ongoing maintenance, training, and management of
change functions

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System Standards Stage

The basic requirements for any HMI application

Activity
DefineHMI
Philosophy

Objectives
Provideguidingprinciples
forHMIdesign,
independentofvendor
platforms

Inputs
HumanFactors
Engineeringguidelines,
Standards,BestPractices,
Functionalrequirements,
experience

DevelopHMIStyle
Guide

ProvidesHMI
implementationdetails
basedontheHMI
Philosophy,feasibleonall
targetplatforms
Providerequiredgraphical
elementstoimplement
displaysbasedontheStyle
Guide

Requirementsdocuments, HMIStyleGuide
ControlSystemand
Networkdesignstandards

HMIToolkit

Outputs
HMIPhilosophyDocument

HMIStyleGuide,
HMIToolkit;Platform
Requirementsdocuments, Specific
vendorsuppliedelements,
experience

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Design Stage

Identification of requirements
Initial designs for all HMI components
Activity
User,Taskand
Functional
Requirements

Objectives
Identifyactivitiesthat
mustbesupportedbythe
HMI

Inputs
ProcessFunctional
Requirements,UserTask
Analysis,HMIPhilosophy

HMISystemDesign

IdentifyplatformsforHMI, Requirementsdocuments, HMISystemDesign

specification
ControlSystemand
control,interfaces,and
Networkdesignstandards
communication

ConsoleDesign

Definecompletehardware Requirementsdocuments, Consoledesigndocuments

andsoftwarerequired,
HFEdesignstandards,
includingallfurnitureand vendorspecifications
supportingsystems

DisplayDesign

Identificationofalldisplays HMIPhilosophy,HMIStyle Displaydesign

documentation,readyfor
Guide,
needed,andnavigation
Requirementsdocuments implementation
scheme

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Outputs
RequirementsDocuments

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Implement Stage

Detailed work to actually build the HMI

Activity
BuildDisplays

Objectives
Completionofalldisplays
andsupportingitems

Inputs
DisplayDesigndocuments

Outputs
Displays,
UserDocumentation

BuildConsole

Assemblyofallconsole
hardwareandsoftware

ConsoleDesigndocuments

Console

Test

IntegratedtestofHMIand
Console

User,Task,Functional
Requirements,TestPlan

HMIreadytocommission,
Testingdocuments,
updatedUser
Documentation

Commission

HMIoperationalin
productionenvironment

Console,Displays,User
documentation

HMIreadytooperate

Train

Trainallusersrelativeto
theirresponsibilities

UserDocumentation,
RequirementsDocuments,
HMIPhilosophy,HMIStyle
Guide,asappropriate

HMIreadytooperate

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Operate Stage

Life with the HMI

Activity

Objectives

Inputs

Outputs

InService

HMIinuse

Commissioning,
QualificationApproval,
UserDocumentation

EffectiveHMI

Maintain

EnsureHMIreflectscurrent ManagementofChange
processrequirements
process

Updated,requalifiedHMI
application,user
documentation,training
materials

Decommission

HMIremovedfromservice, Requirements,
inpartorwhole
ManagementofChange
process

HMI(orpartsthereof)
removed,archivedfor
appropriateperiod

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Continuous Improvement Activities

Activities and procedures to maintain HMI

Activity

Objectives

Inputs

Outputs

Managementof
Change

Implementchanges,
ensuringconsiderationof
allimpacts

ChangesinProcess
ChangesinUser,Taskor
FunctionalRequirements

Changesimplemented
followingapprovedwork
practicesto ensuresafe
andeffectiveoperation

Audit

VerifythatHMIisbeing
managedunderapproved
workpractices

HMIPhilosophy,
HMIStyleGuide
HMIToolkits

Auditrecords,MOC,
updatestorelevant
Standarddocuments

Validation

VerifyHMImeetscurrent
User,TaskandFunctional
Requirements

ValidationPlan

Validatedsystemand
appropriaterecords

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ISA 101 Standard Next Steps

The committee met in November in Louisville, KY at the 2015 ISA FLM and
formed 3 working groups
WG1 - HMI Philosophy & Style Guide Development

This technical report will describe example applications of the Philosophy and Style
Guide to various Process Automation Systems use cases, and will be platform
independent (41 members)
WG2 HMI Usability and Performance
This technical report(s) will be used to assess the effectiveness of the HMI application,
and how use of the standard may assist in improving related metrics (29 members)
WG3 HMI for Mobile Devices
Develop technical report(s) to evaluate and define the use of mobile devices as HMI
stations and how to effectively implement an HMI for use on a mobile device (21
members)

Charters and co-chairs have now been established for these groups and
work should start soon
ISA101 will meet at the SLM 2016 (June) and the FLM 2016 (Sept)

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HMI Examples

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HMI - Data? Information?

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HMI - Level 1: KPI (Offshore platform)

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HMI - Level 2: Task (Oil refinery)

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HMI - Level 3: Details (Oil refinery)

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Thanks Volunteers Welcome

ISA 101 Standard Committee - Voting

Based on established voting rules

20 % of committee to manage the numbers
30% for PR, US, AE and 10% for others
24 month window of participation
Weighted toward input to standard
Last review was in May 2014
ISA101 has 34 voting members which is not 20% of the committee
but, based on the rules34 qualified

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