A Best-in-Class Operations Experience, Out of the Box
DeltaV Live provides a world-class operations experience, designed for today’s high-performance operator requirements. The highly customizable Human Machine Interface (HMI) is the first DCS HMI to natively support HTML5 – laying the foundation for universal, cross-platform graphics that are easy to design and configure. The engineering environment in Graphics Studio simplifies configuration, increasing productivity and removing reliance on scripting for common tasks. Experience single-click access to graphics, built-in hierarchical navigation, layouts, directories, and other applications.
Built-for-Purpose
Built-in tools that incorporate industry standards and best practices to enhance situational awareness
Modern
HTML5 graphics set the foundation for platform independence for displays
Easy
Configuration is intuitive and built for the entire graphics lifecycle

Real Stories, Real Results
Hear how Covestro, Baytown, led the charge in transitioning their HMI from DeltaV Operate to DeltaV Live. Starting with a pilot unit, the team modernized graphics, improved operator experience with customizable themes, and built a scalable library of high-performance objects. This resulted in faster configuration, cleaner visuals, and growing adoption across 19 DeltaV systems.
The Most Advanced and Intuitive DCS HMI
ISA-101 recommends a display hierarchy that provides a structured view of responsibility scope with the ability to drill down.
DeltaV Live puts everything operators need at their fingertips with intuitive features such as customizable layouts, hierarchy navigation, alarm rollups, and high-performance GEMs to effectively run and monitor processes.
Research indicates that over 26% of industrial incidents are attributable to operator error.
DeltaV Live helps reduce these errors with an intuitive, operator-centric HMI that includes features like watch areas, integrated web displays for operating procedures, and SFC (Sequential Function Chart) visualization.
Advanced operator displays can improve the success rate in handling abnormal situations from 70% to 96%.
DeltaV Live allows operators to quickly visualize and respond to alarms with features like alarm lists, banners, and alarm help.
DeltaV Live enables users to quickly create and adapt displays in Graphics Studio and empowers operators to customize their environment with themes, multiple runtime languages, and web displays for integration with other software.
Displays can be published while the system is online, allowing faster distribution.
Featured Videos

Product Overview: DeltaV Live Natively Supports HTML5
Designed for today and tomorrow’s high-performance operator requirements, DeltaV Live Operator Interface provides a world-class user experience.
Product Overview: DeltaV Live Natively Supports HTML5
Easy Drag and Drop Layouts
Easy Class-based GEMs
Live Snippets
Out-of-Box Coordinated Display
Smart Line Intersections
Heard at Emerson Exchange
Enhance Situational Awareness and Decision Making
A well-designed operator interface is essential for effective plant control, enhancing situational awareness and enabling faster, high-quality decision making. Leading indicators paired with high-performance objects capture operators’ attention and paints a picture of the situation well before reaching alarm setpoints. Task-oriented and overview displays provide the necessary context for operators to confidently manage normal operations, start-ups, shutdowns and unexpected events.
DeltaV Live was built with Human Centered Design principles from the beginning, incorporating Center for Operator Performance consortium best practices and industry standards, such as built-in display hierarchies and hierarchical navigation delivering visibility of alarm in context with the ability to quickly navigate and respond. Operators can augment their environment on the fly, reducing the dependency on pre-engineered solutions, allowing them to more easily and intuitively monitor and control their plants.
Philosophy Development
Align to standards and best practices enterprise-wide
Display Design Workshop
Design user-specific high-performance displays
Display Review
Rationalize gaps between current display and display philosophy
Culture Change Management
Garner operator buy-in
Installation and Training
Display upload and human-factor training




