Everything an operator panel needs, built into the sgcUI products you already use: an ISA-101 look for the whole suite, tank and process symbol gauges, P&ID stencils with live process states and flowing pipes, an ISA-18.2 alarm list and a NumPad for touch panels.
The HMI pack is not a separate product. Each piece lives in the sgcUI product it extends, in the units, packages and NuGet packages you already use, and follows the edition of that product.
One call to sgcUIApplyISA101 turns the gauges, charts, diagrams, grids, editors and every other sgcUI control grey and flat together. Normal states stay in shades of grey, and colour is kept for faults, exceeded limits and alarms.
Product: sgcUICore. Platforms: VCL, FireMonkey, WinForms, WPF and Avalonia. Edition: every edition, Community included.
sgcUI foundation →The tank gauge draws a vertical vessel, a horizontal capsule, a cone bottom tank or a sphere, with the level, a scale and the HH, H, L and LL limits. The process symbol gauge shows a valve, pump, motor, fan, heat exchanger or sensor in its state: a running pump spins, a fault flashes and carries a mark, a valve in transit has a dashed outline.
Product: sgcGauges. Platforms: VCL, FireMonkey, WinForms, WPF and Avalonia. Edition: every edition, Community included.
sgcGauges →The sgcGaugesWS bridge feeds the tank and process symbol gauges from MQTT, WebSocket or SSE, and its ValueMap turns plant codes such as RUNNING or a PLC bit into symbol states. The gauges also take their values from code or from a dataset, and there is no OPC UA or Modbus driver to install.
Product: sgcGauges, sgcGaugesWS bridge. Platforms: VCL, FireMonkey, WinForms, WPF and Avalonia. Edition: Registered, needs sgcWebSockets.
Tank and process symbol feeds →The pid library adds 56 stencils in the style of ISA-5.1: valves, pumps, vessels, heat transfer equipment, instruments and piping. TsgcDiagramStatusBinding turns tag values into process states on the equipment and moving dashes along the pipes, as an overlay that never writes the document.
Product: sgcDiagram. Platforms: VCL, FireMonkey, WinForms, WPF and Avalonia. Edition: Registered.
sgcDiagram →TsgcGridAlarmModel keeps the alarms with their ISA-18.2 states and priorities 1 to 4, TsgcGridAlarmLink shows them in a grid, and the alarm menu offers Acknowledge, Acknowledge All, Shelve and Unshelve. Filters and JSON and CSV export are included, and the acknowledge log records every acknowledge, shelve and unshelve.
Product: sgcGrid. Platforms: VCL, FireMonkey, WinForms, WPF and Avalonia. Edition: every edition, Community included. The acknowledge log is Registered.
sgcGrid →A touch panel has no keyboard. The NumPad types a number into the spin edit, the currency edit, the knob and slider gauges and a standard edit, with keys large enough for a finger or a glove. Dock one pad on the form, or attach a drop down pad to a control. The target needs no code.
Product: sgcEditors. Platforms: VCL, FireMonkey, WinForms, WPF and Avalonia. Edition: every edition, Community included.
sgcEditors →Delphi 7 to Delphi 13 with VCL, FireMonkey from Delphi XE6, C++Builder, and .NET WinForms, WPF and Avalonia.
The pack shows the process, your application talks to the plant.
sgcUIApplyISA101 once when the application starts, and every sgcUI control switches to the grey ISA-101 scheme.pid library and draw the tanks, pumps, valves and instruments as stencil nodes and the pipes as connectors. Give each node and pipe the tag it shows.RaiseAlarm and ClearAlarm when its own limits are crossed, and the operator acknowledges and shelves the alarms in the grid.ValueMap turns plant codes such as RUNNING or a PLC bit into symbol states.There is no OPC UA or Modbus driver. Your application brings the values from its own drivers, a database or the sgcGaugesWS bridge, and it decides when an alarm is raised: the alarm model keeps the alarms and their states, it does not watch limits on tags. No piece needs sgcHTML or sgcWebSockets, except the sgcGaugesWS bridge.
The pack follows the ideas of three ISA standards. It gives an application a sound starting point, but conformance depends on the whole HMI: its style guide, its alarm philosophy and the way the plant is engineered.
| Standard | Subject | What the pack does |
|---|---|---|
| ISA-101 | Human machine interfaces for process automation | The preset applies the high performance approach: a grey background and muted equipment, so colour stands out only for abnormal states and alarms. |
| ISA-18.2 | Management of alarm systems | The alarm model uses its alarm states (unacknowledged active, acknowledged active, unacknowledged return to normal, normal, shelved and suppressed), priorities 1 to 4 and the operator actions Acknowledge, Shelve and Unshelve. Rationalising the alarms and choosing their limits stay with the application. |
| ISA-5.1 | Instrumentation symbols and identification | The P&ID stencils draw common equipment and instrument symbols in its style, including the instrument bubbles with their location lines. They are a practical set of symbols, not the complete standard. |
A small tank farm, driven by a simulator
The Suite demo HMI builds a process screen from the pack: a P&ID whose pumps, valves and pipes follow the process, two tank gauges, three process symbol gauges, a setpoint knob with a NumPad, a pump switch and an ISA-18.2 alarm list with its menu, all driven by a deterministic simulator.
sgcUIHMI --test result.txt for its 31 self checks, one PASS or FAIL line eachsgcUI products inside
See also the other sgcUI suite demos.
Every piece follows the edition of its product. The .NET Community packages leave out the same parts as the Delphi Community builds.
| Piece | Product | Community | Registered |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISA-101 suite preset | sgcUICore | ||
| Tank and process symbol gauges | sgcGauges | ||
Live data for the tank and process symbol gauges, with ValueMap (sgcGaugesWS bridge, needs sgcWebSockets) | sgcGauges | — | |
| P&ID stencils, process states and animated pipes | sgcDiagram | — | |
| Alarm model, alarm link and alarm menu, with filters and JSON and CSV export | sgcGrid | ||
| Alarm acknowledge log | sgcGrid | — | |
| NumPad for touch panels | sgcEditors |
In the sgcUI suite, sgcGrid and sgcEditors are in every edition, sgcGauges from Professional and sgcDiagram from Enterprise. Every product is also sold alone, for Delphi and for .NET. See the feature matrix and the pricing.
Product pages: sgcGauges, sgcDiagram, sgcGrid, sgcEditors and the sgcUI suite.