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Re:Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) by idiotsecant on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:46PM (#49948103)
I am an automation engineer for power generation and transmission facilities. Modern industrial HMIs that are the analogue of this always show the structure of the system. This is a weirdly common thing people have been saying on these threads and I have no idea why.
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Re:Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) by zootboy on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:01PM (#49949518)
Agreed. Random example from an HMI vendor's website:

https://sterlingcontrols.com/wp-content/uploads/Main-Process...

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Re:Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) by xg15 on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:22AM (#49952095)
Good point and thanks a lot for the information from that area!

I guess I mixed up different things here - I was thinking about "software dashboards" like Grafana or various Kubernetes frontends.

I didn't know this is still done for dashboards of industrial systems. I think then my annoyance is more that this has never been translated to other areas, like software systems.

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