Get started with InTouch HMI deployment

AVEVA InTouch HMI is powerful human machine interface (HMI) software for building applications and using them to monitor and control industrial processes. It can seamlessly extend access to real-time and historical plant data beyond the control network to both management and business users through web-based displays, dashboards, and reports.

AVEVA InTouch HMI continues a tradition of more than thirty years of market leadership in Human Machine Interface applications.

This guide provides a reference and an organized approach to deploying InTouch HMI in systems of different sizes, scope, and complexity, from a quick and simple deployment to large enterprise-level capabilities.

• This guide covers the basics of InTouch HMI and provides a guide focused on an InTouch HMI standalone quick deployment. InTouch HMI standalone applications are tag-based.

• Subsequent sections of this InTouch HMI deployment guide focus on creating applications with increasing scale, capacity, functionality, and features to support larger InTouch HMI systems.

• Managed InTouch HMI applications developed with the System Platform integrated development environment (IDE) are object-based. For more information about deploying System Platform, refer to the AVEVA System Platform Deployment Guide.

This deployment guide is intended for:

• Engineers and other technical personnel who will develop and implement InTouch HMI applications.

• System Integrators and sales engineers who need to define system topologies in order to submit InTouch HMI and related System Platform project proposals.

You should be familiar with Microsoft Windows and Windows Server operating systems.

For more advanced deployments and topologies beyond the quick deployment model outlined in this section, you should also be familiar with a scripting, programming, or macro language. Also, an understanding of concepts such as variables, statements, functions, and methods will help you to achieve best results in complex industrial operations environments.