Display Quality Data – Live and in Color

With ibaQPanel, you can present live process and quality data directly in custom-designed HMI layouts, ensuring that operators see exactly the information they need, in the most intuitive format. This seamless add-on to ibaPDA supports a wide range of display elements, from classic signal trends to advanced graphics, allowing you to combine real-time data, calculated values, and condition-dependent indicators in one clear interface.

By integrating time-based or length-based trends, operators can monitor key parameters such as temperature, flatness, or thickness profiles in the most relevant context. Visual elements, such as 2D color maps, bar charts, and dynamic plant schematics, make it easy to interpret data at a glance and respond quickly to changes in the process.

Key capabilities

• Embed real-time signals into fully customizable HMI panels.
• Combine process and quality data in a single, synchronized view.
• Use length-based displays to monitor quality parameters along product segments.
• Incorporate advanced visuals such as FFT views, vector profiles, and dynamic shapes.
• Integrate live video feeds from ibaCapture for enhanced situational awareness.

Typical use cases

• Continuous monitoring of rolling mill parameters.
• Quality control in sheet and strip production.
• Process optimization in high-speed manufacturing lines.
• Rapid troubleshooting using real-time trends and visual cues.

In short, this function turns ibaQPanel into a powerful, operator-friendly interface that delivers actionable process insights exactly where they are needed.

ibaQPanel doesn’t just display data, it also lets operators interact directly with the process by entering values, selecting options, or triggering actions from within the visualization. Using intuitive input objects such as sliders, switches, radio buttons, and checkboxes, users can write predefined values to signals or change process parameters without leaving the HMI view.

These input elements are fully configurable in both function and appearance, allowing status-based graphics, multilingual text fields, or context-specific controls. Operators can, for example, select operating modes, adjust setpoints, confirm alarms, or add manual annotations directly to the process record. All inputs are captured in the system for traceability and can be linked to specific process events or operating states.

Key capabilities

• Write predefined values to process signals directly from the display.
• Use multiple input types (switches, sliders, checkboxes, radio buttons, text entry).
• Assign custom graphics and color schemes to represent states or actions.
• Support multilingual operation for international environments.
• Record operator input for audit and process documentation.

Typical use cases

• Adjusting production parameters during a shift.
• Switching between machine modes from the control panel.
• Logging operator annotations alongside process events.
• Manually overriding automated controls during maintenance.

By enabling user input, ibaQPanel transforms from a passive monitoring tool into an active process control interface, putting essential actions right at the operator’s fingertips.

ibaQPanel provides advanced visualization options tailored to cyclical, rotating, and vibration-based processes, as well as power quality analysis. Specialized display objects, such as FFT spectra, orbit diagrams, and vector-based 2D color maps – make it possible to see patterns, harmonics, and anomalies that would be invisible in standard trend graphs.

For rotating machinery, frequency ranges can be configured and highlighted in real time, with markers to track specific harmonics or damage frequencies. Vibration profiles can be linked to kinematics tables for deeper diagnostic insight. In power monitoring scenarios, phase relationships, harmonics, and waveform distortions can be visualized instantly, enabling operators to assess electrical quality alongside mechanical or process data in the same interface.

Key capabilities

• Display FFT analysis for vibration and frequency-domain monitoring.
• Highlight and mark frequency bands for targeted fault detection.
• Visualize orbits and cyclic patterns in rotating equipment.
• Integrate power quality metrics with process data for unified monitoring.
• Combine mechanical and electrical views for complete operational insight.

Typical use cases

• Monitoring turbine, motor, or gearbox condition.
• Detecting imbalance, misalignment, or bearing wear via frequency analysis.
• Tracking harmonic distortion in plant power supply.
• Performing root cause analysis combining vibration and electrical data.

With these special views, ibaQPanel equips operators and analysts with precise, high-resolution insights into both mechanical and electrical performance, all within a single monitoring environment.

ibaQPanel’s Scenario Player makes it possible to change display layouts or camera views automatically, based on incoming process signals. This ensures that operators always see the most relevant information in critical situations, without having to navigate menus or manually switch screens.

When integrated with ibaCapture, the system can instantly display live or replayed video from specific plant areas as soon as a defined event occurs, such as an emergency stop, alarm condition, or quality threshold breach. The video playback can even start with a configurable pre-trigger time, providing context leading up to the event. At the same time, the process data view can change to a predefined layout that highlights the affected signals, equipment, or process steps.

Key capabilities

• Trigger automatic screen changes based on signal conditions.
• Link specific layouts to alarms, events, or process states.
• Display synchronized video and data for rapid event investigation.
• Use pre-trigger video playback to see conditions before an event.
• Combine multiple camera feeds in flexible, operator-defined arrangements.

Typical use cases

• Automatically showing a problem zone during a production stop.
• Switching to a detailed quality dashboard when defects are detected.
• Displaying safety-critical camera views during emergency events.
• Providing immediate visual and data context for troubleshooting.

This function turns ibaQPanel into a proactive monitoring assistant, ensuring that the right visuals appear at the right moment for fast, informed decision-making.

ibaQPanel can be embedded directly into existing third-party HMI systems via ActiveX control, allowing operators to view high-resolution, high-frequency process data alongside other plant information in a single interface. Unlike conventional HMI trends, ibaQPanel supports acquisition rates down to 1 ms – and even 10 µs – so fast process changes, transient events, and short-duration faults are captured and displayed with full fidelity.

This integration brings all the advanced ibaQPanel visualization features—such as length-based displays, 2D color maps, FFT views, and synchronized video playback—into the operator’s familiar HMI environment. It enables combined views of live process signals, calculated quality parameters, and condition-based indicators, without the need to switch between systems or compromise on data resolution.

Key capabilities

• Embed ibaQPanel as an ActiveX control into third-party HMIs.
• Display ultra-high-resolution data far beyond typical HMI capabilities.
• Combine mechanical, electrical, and quality data in one operator screen.
• Maintain full ibaQPanel functionality including zoom, navigation, and event search.
• Synchronize video and process trends for deeper operational insight.

Typical use cases

• Extending existing HMI systems with high-speed process data visualization.
• Integrating vibration and quality monitoring directly into plant control stations.
• Providing operators with one unified view for both control and diagnostics.
• Leveraging iba’s advanced analysis tools without replacing current HMI infrastructure.

By embedding ibaQPanel into third-party HMIs, plants gain a seamless, high-resolution data window that enhances existing operator stations without disruptive system changes.