Compare the Top HMI Software in Japan as of October 2025

What is HMI Software in Japan?

HMI software enables machine operators to effectively operate, monitor, and manage a machine or a system of machines. HMI is short for Human Machine Interface. HMI offers both machine-level or supervisory-level functionality, and the operation of HMI software is done by people using a GUI (Graphical User Interface). HMI software is designed to make machine processes less redundant, and more efficient. Compare and read user reviews of the best HMI software in Japan currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    FactoryTalk Optix

    FactoryTalk Optix

    Rockwell Automation

    FactoryTalk® Optix™ is a new visualization platform that accelerates value delivery with modern technologies, innovative designs and scalable deployment options. FactoryTalk Optix can help improve your process, efficiency and deliverables – in one easy to access tool. Take advantage of new levels of collaboration, scalability and interoperability to achieve your HMI vision. New SaaS-enabled workflows will enable your team to collaborate any time, from anywhere, thanks to built-in change tracking and versioning that automatically keeps track of who did what and when. Harness the cloud and become more agile by deploying quickly and scaling based on demand. Use the increased efficiency to beat competitors to market, get to profit faster and improve return on investment. Transform the way you collaborate! The cloud makes it easier for suppliers, employees and customers to collaborate from anywhere in the world.
    Starting Price: $650
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    FactoryStudio
    Tatsoft’s FactoryStudio gives you the tools to rapidly design powerful and secure industrial applications! Features: real-time data modeling, data logging, MQTT broker/client/spB, audit trail, alarms & events, visual SQL query database gateway, high-performance smart displays, HTML5 dashboards, WPF drawing tools, iOS app, trends & annotations, reporting & more! You can program scripts in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript and Python. With ZERO install on the client side, and only 2 minutes install server side, you can be up and building performance improving applications in no time! Includes dozens of built-in native protocol drivers to PLCs, DCSs, and support for other industry standards, like OPC and MQTT. Need a driver we don’t have yet? We also have a toolkit for protocol driver development! FactoryStudio can act as your data hub for everything in your industrial ecosystem: your link between IT and OT, your real-time devices, and your SQL data sources with easy data-binding
    Starting Price: $960 one-time fee
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    Adroit Ignite

    Adroit Ignite

    Adroit Technologies

    Adroit Technologies have been developing SCADA/HMI software for over 30 years. With over 30 000 licenses sold globally into every industry imaginable. The Adroit Ignite HMI software is a perfect derivative of the Adroit SCADA targeted at smaller industrial applications, OEM and machine builders to use. Built on the Microsoft .NET technology stack the Adroit Ignite design surface supports the widest ability to integrate virtually any aspect of your control system. Giving you access to all the familiar .Net controls, Vector Graphics and even allows you to drop in and use your own Custom Controls within your visualization design. Integration can be supported through scripting which is integrated into Visual Studio to allow even the most complex extensions. Our I/O Server delivers data from all the well known PLC brands and open standards such as OPC, OPC UA, Web Services, OLEDB , MQTT, BACNet As we tell our customers, If you can dream it you can build it in Adroit Ignite
    Starting Price: $250 USD
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    CloudView NMS

    CloudView NMS

    CloudView NMS

    CloudView is a universal standards-based network management and monitoring system (NMS). It can auto-discover, monitor and perform many functions with any vendor SNMP or TCP/IP devices. It provides consistent geographical and logical view of your network (thousands of IP nodes), configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting. Full FCAPS functionality per TMN standards is provided, so it can be used in both enterprise and service provider networks with carrier-grade reliability and secure (over HTTPS/SSH) access for multiple concurrent users/operators with different profiles . The functions include network monitoring/management, server monitoring, apps/IoT monitoring, SCADA monitoring, network operations automation, website monitoring and much more. CloudView NMS scales for any network size. It is supported on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Raspberry Pi. For servers, both agent-less and agent oriented modes are supported.
    Starting Price: $295 full unlimited license
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    VTScada

    VTScada

    Trihedral

    VTScada is award-winning software that provides a refreshingly intuitive platform for creating highly-customized industrial monitoring and control applications that end users can trust and use with ease. A wide variety of industries around the world use VTScada for mission-critical applications of every size. VTScada is unique in that all its core SCADA components are developed in-house and are installed out-of-the-box. No need to cobble together basic functionality using custom code and third-party components like alarm dialers, Historians, and application version control. Built-in is better.
    Starting Price: $3,295 one-time fee
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    Predator Software

    Predator Software

    Predator Software

    Since 1994, Predator Software focuses on automating manufacturers worldwide with innovative and award-winning software applications. Predator Software is an industry leader in Industry 4.0, lean manufacturing, industrial networking solutions and automation via shop floor control or SFC. Predator's SFC technologies include CNC networking, machine monitoring, OEE, production data management, data collection, machine simulation & verification, tool & gage crib management, traveler management, CNC post processing, flexible manufacturing systems and robotic cell control software.
    Starting Price: $250
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    Elecdes Design Suite
    The Elecdes Design Suite software (EDS) is a feature rich set of electrical and instrumentation, design and CAD tools, used in over 50 countries around the world. EDS is comprised of Elecdes, Paneldes, Instrument Manager, and several add on productivity tools for enhancing your electrical and instrumentation engineering. The flagship component of the Elecdes Design Suite, Elecdes is electrical CAD software designed for the engineering and drafting of electrical schematic diagrams, wiring diagrams, loop diagrams, electrical panel layout diagrams, and more. Using its integrated database, Elecdes provides a series of automated reports, such as bill of materials, cable schedules, cross reference and wiring lists. Scada Systems was founded in 1985 as a control and data acquisition engineering consultancy. After identifying the need for automated electrical design software, Scada Systems set about establishing the world’s leading suite of instrumentation, panel and electrical CAD design.
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    Predator Touch HMI

    Predator Touch HMI

    Predator Software

    Predator Touch HMI is a touch first, Human Machine Interface, designed to replace shop floor bar code readers, QR code readers and hand held terminals. Machinists and operators love the simplicity and IT loves the ease of creating new applications and deploying them. Predator Touch HMIs run on almost all Windows editions. Predator Touch HMI simplifies real-time manual data collection, DNC and utilizing other applications with a modern touch first interface. Supports data collection for machine downtimes, scrap reasons, and more. Predator Touch HMIs can be created for assembly lines, test stands, light towers, MDC and DNC to improve manufacturing processes and operations. This solution provides a great alternative to costly PLC+HMI touch screen options. Lots of Windows tablets, PCs and laptop choices can be used for harsh manufacturing environments. Create custom CMM or inspection front end client HMI applications for use with a wide range of CMM and inspection applications.
    Starting Price: $1,500
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    Peakboard

    Peakboard

    Peakboard

    With its low-code platform for creating industrial applications, Peakboard GmbH assists production and logistics companies in monitoring their internal processes and managing their own systems interactively. The solution can gather process data from all common data sources, including SAP, machine controls, material flow controls, and Excel. It can then evaluate and display this data on screens in real-time. This approach enables easy identification of sources of errors, thereby increasing productivity. Customers have the autonomy to decide which key figures they would like to be displayed on the dashboard. Furthermore, information can be relayed to over 90 connected IT interfaces using touchscreens. This establishes an intuitive user interface that employees in production and the warehouse can utilize to interact with the complex IT landscape. As a result, controlling production machinery becomes as simple as using a smartphone.
    Starting Price: 708 € (annually/license)
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    LAquis SCADA
    Supervisory control and data acquisition system. Monitoring, screens/interface, storage, process control, administration, management, generation of realtime reports and advanced customizable documents with calculations, layouts and algorithms. It can be locally or optionally via the WEB.
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    Vijeo Designer

    Vijeo Designer

    Schneider Electric

    Discover Vijeo Designer software to cover your Magelis HMI application needs. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, it also offers functions such as multimedia capabilities and remote access for more efficiency. The cross-platform Vijeo Designer configuration software helps to create operator dialogue applications for controlling automation systems. A software range to cover your Harmony and Magelis HMI application design needs: Vijeo Designer for Small Panels, Advanced Panels and iPC. Vijeo Designer is the HMI component of EcoStruxure Machine Expert for machine applications. Vijeo Designer Design’Air enables you to connect to your HMI remotely for an interactive mirror view of your application. Vijeo Designer Design’Air Plus, enable you to get a fully operable view of your application from wherever you are.
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    Advantech WebAccess/HMI
    WebAccess/HMI Designer is powerful yet intuitive software to create total solutions for human machine interface products. WebAccess/HMI designer is proven in many application fields and is an easily integrated development tool. The features include solution-oriented screen objects, high-end vector graphics, Windows fonts for multi-language applications, a recipe, an alarms. WebAccess/HMI Runtime, a component of WebAccess/HMI, guarantees the reliability and performance of Open Platform because of the minimum system overhead, high data communication rates, sub-second screen switching, and 24/7 operation. Additionally, Advantech’s fast response software team is continually adding new functions, communication drivers, and solutions to the software to meet dynamic needs.
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    GL Studio
    DiSTI's flagship HMI product, GL Studio, delivers advanced high-performance 2D and 3D user interfaces to the aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, rail, commercial space, and agricultural industries. GL Studio is a GUI editor environment with C++ code generation and runtime library for standard QM embedded apps and Safety Critical apps. Leading global manufacturers and defense organizations like the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Boeing, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Jaguar Land Rover, Hyundai & Kia Motors, and Fendt Tractors choose GL Studio for its performance, fidelity, interface development, and deployment reliability. GL Studio exceeds the developer's workflow and runtime performance demands for avionics, instrument clusters, heads up displays, infotainment systems, or control systems.
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    Unified-E

    Unified-E

    Unified-E AG

    Unified-E is a next-generation HMI and SCADA software designed for industrial automation, enabling seamless PLC and HMI visualization across Windows, Android, and industrial devices. It supports direct communication with controllers without requiring a web server, ensuring fast and secure data exchange between devices. With Unified-E App Manager, users can set up remote monitoring and alarming, allowing operators to receive real-time alerts and diagnostics on their smartphones. This makes mobile supervision and maintenance more efficient, reducing downtime. Unified-E supports direct licenses for single devices and gateway licenses for centralized monitoring. Its intuitive view editor enables scalable and hardware-independent HMI design, making it the perfect choice for machine builders, system integrators, and industrial end users looking for future-proof visualization solutions.
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