Minebea Intec, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of weighing and inspection technology, will be presenting new products at PPMA 2024, including its latest innovation, the ‘Blue HMI’ user interface for checkweighers
Minebea Intec offers a broad portfolio of high-precision checkweighers and, with the new Blue HMI, has further developed the user interface for the entire product range with a view to the future.
Whether you need to introduce a new product, adjust line parameters or define a batch report: the new Blue HMI user interface makes working with checkweighers easier and more efficient. Thorsten Vollborn, Head of Product Management Inspection & Digital Services at Minebea Intec, emphasises the advantages of this technology: “The design concept of Blue HMI is based on what we know from our daily work with high-tech devices. The user-friendly menu navigation and new workflows simplify operations considerably and shorten the familiarisation period.”
In addition to user-friendliness, data security and flexibility also take centre stage. For administrators, Blue HMI offers new and extensive setting options for user and group management. To enable ergonomic working on the system, all checkweighers – including the Synus®, Flexus® and EWK product series – are now also available with a movable display variant.
Maximum control
Blue HMI enables advanced monitoring and analysis functions for checkweighers for better quality control and process optimisation. “The operating unit displays the overall system effectiveness and other statistics based on the current weighing results. It also has various logging functions that make it ideal for audits,” added Dr Thorsten Vollborn. As checkweighers are often located at the end of a production line, the integrated overall equipment effectiveness provides a clear overview of the efficiency of the production line. All of this is displayed in a new dashboard or “control centre” via new widgets and diagrams.
Versatile interfaces enable optimum integration into the line
With the new user interface, Minebea Intec fulfils the needs and increases the flexibility of its customers by equipping the checkweighers with flexible interfaces such as industrial fieldbuses, Ethernet/IP, Profinet or the company’s own SPC@Enterprise. OPC UA is fully integrated in accordance with specification 40200 (Companion Specification Weighing) and is optionally on board. The interface can also be expanded to include the PackML specification 30050 (Companion Specification PackML according to OMAC). “The new ‘Browser Remote View’ function particularly demonstrates the advanced technology of the Blue HMI,” said Thorsten Vollborn. “Similar to an internet router at home, the interface can be loaded like a website in a browser on an authorised client.” The technology used is platform-independent and can therefore be used from any device with a browser, be it a PC, a mobile phone, a tablet or a TV in the meeting room.
Minebea Intec at PPMA 2024
Want to find out more about the numerous innovations from Minebea Intec and benefit from meeting specialists? The team look forward to welcoming you to Minebea Intec’s PPMA exhibition stand B52 in Hall 5.
