Design and customisation as market trends according to the “HMI 2030” study

The Input Systems Association, the lead­ing asso­ci­a­tion of input sys­tem man­u­fac­tur­ers, com­mis­sioned the IZT Berlin (Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment) to con­duct a study on the nature of indus­trial HMIs (human-​machine inter­faces) in 2030. In a three-​stage process, the rel­e­vant global, tech­no­log­i­cal and mar­ket trends were iden­ti­fied, eval­u­ated by a panel of experts in a Delphi sur­vey and val­i­dated in a final work­shop. The study, enti­tled “HMI – Human Machine Interaction”, has now been completed. 

Among other things, the non-​public study con­cluded that design and cus­tomi­sa­tion aspects will con­tinue to gain in impor­tance. Differentiating their own prod­ucts is becom­ing increas­ingly impor­tant for device and machine man­u­fac­tur­ers as com­pet­i­tive pres­sure (from other regions and dis­rup­tive com­pe­ti­tion) increases. Of course, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) on the soft­ware side is very impor­tant here, but it should not be for­got­ten that the impor­tant first impres­sion is made at the very first glance/​contact with the prod­uct (look & feel). Product man­agers should there­fore con­tinue to pay atten­tion to clas­sic virtues such as mechan­i­cal and hard­ware design if they want their prod­uct to make a last­ing first impression. 

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