Towards context adaptive HMIs in process industries

This paper presents the combination of two distinct model driven HMI engineering approaches. Together they setup a complete toolchain that lays the basis for the model driven (semi)automatic generation of flexible, multi-platform HMIs for process industries. The two approaches are autoHMI which derives a concrete UI design from Computer Aided Engineering Data, and XVCML which allows to generate final UIs for different web implementation paradigms like XHTML or Java on top of OPC UA. This tool integration provides a complete model driven software engineering architecture that cuts down the manual efforts in HMI engineering close to zero. This is a prerequisite to handle the complexity of context adaptive interfaces.