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What does the BANCONE means?
BANCONE draws its name from the Italian word “BANCONE”, which refers to a counter, workbench. This name was strategically chosen to reflect our platform’s core function as a comprehensive workbench for HMI design and development.
In Italian, a “BANCONE” is where skilled professionals craft their work with precision and expertise—whether it’s a craftsman’s workshop or the counter where a barista creates the perfect espresso. Similarly, our BANCONE platform serves as the digital workbench where teams craft exceptional HMI experiences. Behind the BANCONE, RE:LAB’s long standing expertise and knowledge base is at work.
What do we refer to with HMI and HMI assistant?
HMI (Human-Machine Interface) refers to the system that allows users to interact with a machine, device or software. In the context of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design, HMIs are commonly found in vehicles, industrial equipment and digital interfaces, providing users with controls, displays and feedback mechanisms to operate and monitor systems efficiently.
An HMI Assistant is an intelligent tool designed to support designers, prototypers, researchers, and validators by automating key tasks related to HMI development and evaluation. It helps analyze interface designs, improve usability, ensure compliance with guidelines, and streamline testing processes. By leveraging AI, the HMI Assistant reduces manual workload, enhances decision-making, and accelerates the design and validation of user-friendly interfaces.
How does BANCONE compare to traditional HMI development tools?
BANCONE serves as an intelligent assistant throughout the entire design, development, and validation lifecycle, unlike traditional tools that segment these phases and focus on individual implementation activities. Its AI capabilities seamlessly automate routine tasks, provide real-time feedback, and enable predictive testing across all phases, resulting in faster development cycles and higher quality outputs.
What makes BANCONE different from general-purpose LLMs?
BANCONE builds on the capabilities of the most advanced LLMs, but it’s not a simple chatbot — it’s a complete work environment. The platform brings together AI-powered chat, specialized tools, Figma integration, and task-specific agents, all designed to support your actual workflow. What truly sets BANCONE apart is the control it gives you. You decide when to allow BANCONE to access your analyses’ results and work on it. You pick which agent to interact with, enabling its capabilities only when you need them. And you can shape BANCONE’s knowledge by uploading your own methodologies, guidelines, and datasets. In short, BANCONE turns LLMs into operational tools that integrate seamlessly into your work environment — while keeping you in full control.
Which industries and project types benefit most from BANCONE?
BANCONE is designed for OEMs and Tier 1 and 2 in different industrial domains such as automotive, off-highway, railway, avionics, and industrial automation. The platform scales effectively from simple interfaces to complex, multi-screen industrial control systems, making it suitable for both small teams and enterprise-level operations.
Which applications does BANCONE integrate with?
BANCONE integrates with Figma through a dedicated plug-in that lets you work directly within your design environment. The plug-in is seamlessly connected to the BANCONE web app, so all analysis results generated inside Figma can be accessed and queried directly within BANCONE — leveraging its AI agents and your knowledge base. This means you can move fluidly from design to analysis without leaving your workflow.
Further integration with other tools will follow soon.
How can a user access BANCONE?
BANCONE is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, so there’s nothing to install or configure on your computer. Simply create an account, and you can access BANCONE from any device using your login credentials
How does BANCONE help guide HMI design while ensuring compliance with industry standards?
BANCONE lets you validate your design at different stages of the design process. First, you can verify that fonts, icons, and interactive areas in your Figma screens comply with industry standards — directly within your working files. On top of that, BANCONE offers expert-designed tools that help you check the consistency of your design elements, both internally and against market standards. These tools operationalize visual and harmony parameters built on years of industry experience, turning expert knowledge into actionable and quantifiable everyday checks.
How does BANCONE’s AI agent respond to my questions?
BANCONE’s chat integrates multiple specialized agents, each designed to be an intelligent executor of a specific, vertical task. Every agent follows its own set of instructions, built on RE:LAB’s validated methodologies, and delivers structured outputs tailored to be as useful as possible. Agents can also be built by Organizations. They leverage dedicated knowledge bases and contextual information to maximize effectiveness for each task. For example, BANCONE includes agents that help you conduct heuristic and cognitive analyses, validate your documents, assess texts and translations’ quality, and much more. You choose which agent to engage based on what you need, activating its capabilities only when they’re relevant to your work.
How is BANCONE’s knowledge base built and expanded?
BANCONE relies on a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system that retrieves information from curated documents, ensuring controlled, precise, and always up-to-date responses in the Chatbot. The knowledge base has two layers: one maintained by RE:LAB, which includes validated industry standards, guidelines, and expert insights, and one that you can build yourself by uploading your own methodologies, guidelines, and reference materials. This dual approach means BANCONE combines RE:LAB’s domain expertise with your organization’s specific knowledge, giving you responses that are both authoritative and tailored to your context.
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