Rope pulling force is set on sliders. Drag to adjust, tap a value to jump there, tap again to fine tune. Since the tablet’s position in the cabin isn’t always fixed, there’s a switch to flip the layout. This way, the readouts are never covered by the hand reaching for them.

Pulling on a slider makes it bigger. It’s not the same as the resistance of a real lever, sure, but operators notice and that’s enough.

The tablet sits in a dock, and the dock moves with the machine. We made touch targets larger, sized to be hit while everything around the operator is moving.

Field tests showed the need to sometimes operate all sliders at once. Instead of fidgeting with three fingers, tap one button to link the sliders together.

The side panel has a static section (persistent gauges, like in a car dashboard) and a dynamic section (warnings and errors that surface only when relevant). Operators build muscle memory for where things are, so we don't move them.

Every machine action and every user action is archived. Tablets sync when they have a connection and send data into a central webadmin. A T-WINCH in Austria and one in Oregon can be checked from the same dashboard.

Multiple errors can fire at once. Warnings stack into a carousel and don’t fight for screen space. Each is logged, including the operator's "I understand" tap.

Temperatures, fluid levels, operational graphs. Colors shift as values cross thresholds. The telemetry flows up to Webadmin for deeper analysis. Diagnose and troubleshoot machines three time zones away without flying in a service tech.

Contrast and color choices are designed for sunlight on the screen. Iconography borrows from automotive cues. Type sizing assumes you're not looking from 30cm away on a calm couch.

Our digital emergency brake used to be a 3-second long press. 3 seconds is too long in an emergency, but a touchscreen is error-prone enough that we couldn't shorten it further. We replaced it with a tap-to-open sidebar, then tap-to-stop. It’s faster and harder to fire by accident. Naturally, it’s accessible from any screen.