LINE SCREENS
Live line and station screens
Plant home, line and station views with a navigation tree, tabs and Ctrl+K search to jump anywhere. Status, setpoints and the PLC's own limits on every station.
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AIS HMI: an HMI that grows into SCADA.
A modern operator interface for your line that runs in any browser, on any device: live line screens, OEE, alarm management and maintenance tickets, with every event tied together on one timeline. Start with one line, grow to the whole plant: the AIS HMI becomes your SCADA, without starting over or buying a second platform.
Illustration with example data.
Features
Everything the line needs, in one place.
Built and tested against the machine's own PLC program running in a full simulation, so it works with your line before it's installed on it.
OEE
OEE for every shift
Availability, performance and quality, with one agreed definition of “running”, plus output and pace against plan on the plant home page.
ALARMS
ISA-18.2 alarm management
Priorities, alarm states, acknowledge with a comment, shelving, and the analysis that cuts alarm floods: bad actors, chattering and standing alarms, and alarm rate per 10 minutes. Annunciation banner and sound.
MAINTENANCE
Alarms that open tickets
Chosen alarm groups automatically open a maintenance request. Every event is tied together on one timeline: alarm, acknowledgement, accepted, arrived, repaired, back in production, closed. Downtime is counted against the real cause.
MOBILE
A maintenance app for any screen
A separate app for the maintenance team that works on a phone, a tablet or a desk monitor: accept tickets, keep a notes log, print a work order.
NOTIFY
Email the right people
An address book and an “email to” list per alarm group. Messages go out when a ticket opens, is accepted, isn't accepted in time, or closes, and for critical alarms.
TRENDS & REPORTS
Trends, reports and recipes
Trends over selectable windows, a report for every batch against its limits, CSV export, and recipe timing.
SECURITY
Sign-in and roles
Viewer, operator, supervisor, maintenance, engineering and administrator. The server checks the role on every action, not just the screen.
The Engine and the Designer
Build screens like GT Designer, see the PLC like GX Works.
A runtime Engine and a Designer share one project format, the way a GOT runs its runtime and GT Designer builds the project. The Designer opens the project, checks it against the Engine's own rules and runs it with live values. Screens drawn by hand and screens drafted with AI follow the same rules and land in the same files.
- The Designer. Ribbon, project explorer, canvas with rulers and smart guides, property grid, layers and an error list; editors for tags, alarms, logging, recipes, scripts and text lists; faceplates made from a selection; Run (F5) starts the real Engine on the PC with live values
- 44 object types. Symbols, faceplates, pop-up windows, trends, gauges, recipes and alarm lists
- Ladder monitor. The PLC program drawn as ladder from its instruction list or a GX Works2 / GX Works3 export, with closed contacts, energized coils and word values live; read-only
- Sequence monitor. Sequences written in structured text drawn as live charts: what each step is waiting for in plain words, learned normal step times and an overrun alarm; maintenance tickets carry the step and its live inputs
- English, Spanish and Japanese. Every text in every language, checked before a project is done
Data sources · deployment
Reads the line from the PLCs you already have.
A project names its data sources, and several can run at once. With the AIS Edge bridge, every device AIS Edge connects becomes a source of tags for the screens, from MELSEC and OMRON to EtherCAT® drives and CC-Link IE stations (those two in testing in AIS Edge, in simulation).
| Source or platform | What it does | Proven so far |
|---|---|---|
| AIS Edge bridge | The Edge's own tag names, a live event stream, writes through the Edge (refused while the link is down, never queued), link state per PLC. The Designer imports tags, screens and texts from AIS Edge. | Verified against a real AIS Edge runtime |
| MELSEC SLMP | The Engine's own MC protocol 3E client: read, subscribe and write, with a write allow-list | Interop AIS SoftPLC; a real iQ-R next |
| Modbus TCP | Client for any Modbus TCP device | Supported simulator |
| Industrial PC service | Ubuntu LTS, a systemd service with watchdog and automatic restart; a locked-down kiosk browser on the panel itself | In testing |
| Signed updates | Signed packages, a trial run with automatic fallback, deliberate rollback, never an accidental downgrade | In testing signatures checked against the standard's test vectors |
| 30-day burn-in | A month-long run with faults injected on purpose, started 22 October 2026 | In validation running |
Honest about the link: when a PLC link drops, every value shows "no data" at once, writes are refused and PLC-bit alarms freeze rather than clear falsely, and a system alarm says why. EtherCAT® is a registered trademark and patented technology, licensed by Beckhoff Automation GmbH, Germany.
Room to grow
Start with one line. Grow to the whole plant.
The AIS HMI is built to grow into SCADA itself: more lines, more screens, more users, the same alarms, OEE and maintenance across the plant. There's no point where you have to move to something else.
And if your company has standardized on another platform, you're not locked in. The screens are defined once, and the same definition builds Ignition screens today, with ICONICS GENESIS64 and Mitsubishi GOT paths prepared.
- Runs in any browser, on any device: control room, line-side panel, tablet or phone
- Reads the line from the PLCs you already have
- Grows from one line to plant-wide SCADA on the same platform
- Your choice, not a forced move: the same screen definition also builds Ignition, with paths prepared to GENESIS64 and GOT
- Tested against the line's real PLC program running in a simulation of the line, before installation
Status · 29 October 2026
Where every feature stands.
Each Engine version is pinned by the projects tested with it, and the automated tests and a regression run of the first customer project pass before every release.
In use / verified
In use on a first customer project, running against that line's simulation, or verified against a real counterpart.
- Line screens, ISA-18.2 alarms, OEE, maintenance tickets and the maintenance app, email, trends and reports, recipes and roles
- Shown to match, side by side, the HMI it replaced: every API route, every permission case and every screen view
- The AIS Edge bridge, against a real AIS Edge runtime
In testing
Built and passing on the demo project and in automated tests; not yet in a plant.
- The Designer (first version, in review)
- 44 object types, faceplates, pop-up windows, kiosk and ANDON screens
- Logging and history trends, replay of any screen at a past time, logic jobs and scripts, audit trail with electronic signatures, backups
- Ladder and sequence monitors
- MELSEC SLMP and Modbus TCP sources; the systemd service with watchdog; signed updates with trial and rollback; the 30-day burn-in, running
Planned
Next on the list.
- Proof on an industrial PC with a real-time kernel; Ethernet TSN through AIS Edge
- SLMP 4E and labels by name; a first run on a real iQ-R
- An iQ-R diagnostics pack; Designer templates and DXF import
- An AI support assistant that answers from the plant's own data, read-only
Being finalized
Coming to the product.
Phone alertsAlerts straight to the phones of the people on call, on the plant Wi-Fi or over the secure remote connection
Two-factor sign-inA second proof of identity for anyone signing in from outside the plant network
Want to see it running?
We can demonstrate the AIS HMI live, driven by a simulated line. Tell us about your line and we'll show you what it would look like on yours.