Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and HMI are closely related, and often referred to in the same context

since they are both part of a larger industrial control system, but they each offer different functionality and opportunities. SCADA systems have a greater capacity for data collection and control-system operation.

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a system of software and hardware elements that allows industrial organizations to:

• Control industrial processes locally or at remote locations
• Monitor, gather, and process real-time data
• Directly interact with devices such as sensors, valves, pumps, motors, and more through PLC
• Real data recording
• Offline Report generation
• Alarm & audit report generation
• Security system
• Recipe & batch management