InTouch HMI introduction

AVEVA InTouch HMI is powerful HMI (human-machine interface) 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 in systems of different sizes, scope, and complexity, from a quick and simple "up and running" deployment to large enterprise-level capabilities.

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

• Subsequent sections of this InTouch deployment guide focus on creating applications with increasing scale, capacity, functionality, and features to support larger InTouch HMI systems. Managed InTouch applications developed with the System Platform integrated development environment (IDE) are object based. Refer to the AVEVA System Platform Deployment Guide for further information about deploying System Platform.

InTouch HMI Installation

Install InTouch using the AVEVA simplified installation process.

The main decision when you install InTouch HMI is whether to install the InTouch development and run-time components together, or the run-time components alone. This flexibility offers you the choice to set up a single node workstation with both development and operations functionality or an operations-only workstation.

• A single node workstation can reduce costs by appropriately scaling to a more focused or limited operation.

• A run-time "operations" workstation allows you to locate workstations apart from your development environment, and also allows for a highly secure operations platform that can be isolated from unsecure networks.

The installation program guides you in selecting the features you want, verifying or modifying your selections, installing prerequisite software, and then installing InTouch HMI. For detailed information about installation, see the 2. Download and install topic later in this guide.