Data Visualization and Responsive Design Principles applied to Industry 4.0: the Mentor Project Case Study

Industries and the manufacturing sector are among the contexts that can enjoy great benefits from adopting digital technologies improvement. In this sense, Industry 4.0 has represented a clear revolution, having already improved production and performance, and it is still providing its potential in terms of sustainability, quality of activities for workers, business and company awareness, etc. In this context, the use of data visualization strategies, responsive design, and customization for user interface and interaction mechanisms can provide great benefits, improving the exploitation of the data, equipping the personnel with indispensable information about the status of machinery, productions, plants, and factories, etc, to different users who could be equipped with different devices. In this paper, we present a work-in-progress investigation, based on an Industry 4.0 real case study, where we have adopted data visualization and responsive design strategies, customizing a user interface and related interaction mechanisms, on the basis of different devices. The paper discusses some preliminary results, while validations with target users are planned and not yet conducted.