Uteco - Engineering simplicity and UX: a new HMI standard for industrial printing

Company: UTECO Converting S.p.A.

Headquarters: Colognola ai Colli, Verona, Italy

Sector:  Industrial Machinery - Flexible Packaging Printing

Employees: ~300

Machinery digitalized: ~100 per year

Project developement year: 2024-2025

X Platform:  JMobile for Edge Visualization  + HMI: JSmart Series + Corvina Platform

Project Summary

UTECO, a leading manufacturer of printing and converting presses for flexible packaging, set out to transform the user experience on its new generation of machines. Together with Exor, Corvina, and a dedicated UX design partner, the company developed a multi-device ecosystem, from a redesigned HMI to mobile and wearable extensions, earning the prejoct  both the UX Design Award and the IF Design Award 2025.

Uteco’s challenge

Making complexity intuitive, for every user 

UTECO’s ambition went far beyond aesthetics. The challenge was to rethink how people — from operators to service technicians to plant managers — interact with complex industrial systems on a daily basis. 

UTECO faced a bold ambition: 

• Rethink how operators, service teams, managers, and other user roles interact with our machines. 
  
• Harmonize a fragmented experience across generations of PLCs and legacy logic. 
  
• Ensure simplicity, scalability, and usability, without sacrificing industrial robustness 
  
• Increasing expectations around usability, transparency, and remote access 
  
• The strategic desire to make the HMI a central element of product identity and customer satisfaction, making the HMI a core part of the product, not anymore only an accessory.
  
  

X Platform Results