Case Study: M2I achieves faster HMI development with Qt

Advanced Automation Systems with Qt

M2I, a manufacturer and exporter of embedded operator interface panels and HMI systems for industrial and building automation, needed a way to develop both desktop and embedded applications for its TOP Series while keeping the virtual design interface and the real device interface identical. The company also wanted a more flexible, customizable GUI workflow for creating rich, multilingual automation interfaces across multiple platforms.

Using Qt’s cross-platform tools, libraries, Qt Thread, and Qt Container, M2I built the TOP Series with a single source code base for desktop and embedded devices, enabling fast design-data transfer and identical rendering across platforms. Qt helped simplify development, improve data processing, and make interface creation much easier; according to M2I, it cut development time by half or more and eliminated much of the manual work of capturing and converting fonts, characters, and images.

M2I

Insik Kim

Team manager