Christian Rudolph, and Mark Kist Buberl from Karlstadt received the
design award red dot award
Excellent: Christian Rudolph (Rudolph design office, Kist, left) and
Karl Markus Stadter Buberl (engine, Office of Design and
Communication) take the design award "red dot award" counter.
In one of the world's largest and most renowned design competitions,
the "red dot design award" have the Kister Christian Rudolph (design
office Rudolph) and Charles Stadter Markus Buberl (engine, Office of
Design and Communication), the coveted "red dot" in the category of
communication raked design. They developed the operational concept and
the design for a software used to operate the machines in the
packaging industry.
The machine operator "tell" the machine with touch screen monitors
(touch screens), what they do. At the same time they receive
information about the monitors on the machine, for example, about the
temperature or the remaining amount of material. The icons, the
arrangement of the buttons and everything that goes with it was the
most user-friendly and understandable shape.
Complex production line
A concrete example: One of these machines formed of a plastic cup of
yogurt role. These cups are sterilized in the same machine, then
filled with yogurt and finally sealed with an aluminum cover. Finally
comes the expiration date on it. Behind the machine spits out the
ready-made packaged yogurt.
The client was the international Oystar Group, one of their ten
aircraft manufacturers of the leading companies in the field of
packaging technology. For these ten companies should define a
human-machine interface will be developed, as the experts call it the
appearance of the software for the machine operator.
The challenge in software design has forced the various manufacturers
in the Oystar group to be brought under one umbrella. All existing
solutions had been designed differently - a motley collection. Through
an overarching concept should be a uniform design to be created.
Rudolph and Buberl had to first think into the machine. More important
were the suburban analysis directly with customers of the Oystar
group. This allowed the designers to observe machinery running complex
workflows and processes and the necessary action steps to understand
and learn.
The results are now clearly structured diagrams. First you see on the
screen shows the basic design of the machine. If you click into it in
the individual components, open the details. As more charts to come to
light with self-explanatory icons and icons, buttons and sliders that
are used to control the machine, with scales and displays about the
remaining length of the plastic cup of yogurt.
On different systems
Complex processes are so easy to use. "Our goal was to make things
very intuitive," said Rudolph and Buberl. All this had to end or
running on different computer systems.
Now, the two designers were allowed to travel to Berlin to receive the award.
On the new HMI concept for Oystar yet another Karlstadt was involved:
Achim fright with his Marktheidenfeld GTI control the entire order had
acquired, and as in addition to project management general contractor,
major work on the concept for the software and implemented the
prototype.
