Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090216341 | Method and System for Providing a User Interface - A method for providing a user interface for an industrial control system. Information is presented at least in part displayed in layers or filters on one or more display screens of a control system. The control system may include other media for presenting or displaying information. The content for the one or more layers, which also provide an interface to a process state or function, is determined based on information available from the control system, dependent on which of the available items of the information shall be visually displayed or otherwise presented prominently, or displayed less prominently, or hidden. An interface, computer programs and a control system are also provided. | 08-27-2009 |
20100017746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A CONTROL SYSTEM USER INTERFACE - A method for providing a user interface for an industrial control system including a computer and a plurality of process graphics including software objects for controlling and/or monitoring real world objects controlled by the control system. A display of selected process graphics, a designated view arranged with a tab or another selector, is automatically generated. The designated view may be generated dependent on selecting one or more logical groupings to which control system software objects representing the real world objects belong. At least one tab on a designated view, or an active link, is arranged to display a small visual representation of a second process graphic to which it is linked on detection of a computer input on or near the at least one tab, or link. | 01-21-2010 |
20100050103 | Method And System For Generating A Control System User Interface - A method for providing a user interface for an industrial control system includes a computer and a plurality of process graphics having software objects for controlling and/or monitoring real world objects controlled by the control system. A display of selected process graphics, a designated view arranged with a tab or other selection mechanisms, is automatically generated. The designated view is generated dependent on selecting one or more logical groupings to which control system software objects representing the real world objects belong. | 02-25-2010 |
20100088627 | METHOD FOR LOADING AND DISPLAYING DIFFERENT PROCESS DISPLAYS ON A USER INTERFACE OF AN INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM - A method for providing an improved user navigation interface for an industrial control system. The system includes a computer and a display device and a computer implemented workplace application. The system also includes a plurality of process control interfaces displayed on the display device. The process control interfaces include one or more software objects for controlling and/or monitoring objects controlled by the control system. The method includes displaying in the user interface a set of the process control interfaces generated by one instance of the workplace application in a designated view that includes a corresponding set of graphic user interface objects. Each graphic user interface object identifies and, on selection, displays the corresponding the process control interface. By selecting a first or second graphic user interface objects, a user can switch between a display of a first process control interface and a display of the second process control interface provided by the same instance of the workplace application. A graphic user interface, a system and a computer program for carrying out the method are also described. | 04-08-2010 |
20100107108 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A CONTROL SYSTEM USER INTERFACE - A method for providing navigation in a user interface for an industrial control system including a computer, a display device, a plurality of process graphics, and at least one user interface. A plurality of software objects are displayed for use in controlling and/or monitoring of real world objects controlled by the control system. One or more designated views are generated providing navigation between members of a group of context-related process graphics. Each process graphic with a designated view is a member of a predetermined group of process graphics, where each designated view includes one or more tabs directly linked to other members of the predetermined group in the industrial control system. A system and computer program for carrying out the method are described. | 04-29-2010 |
20100114337 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A CONTROL SYSTEM USER INTERFACE - A method for providing an improved engineering interface for configuring, maintenance or monitoring an industrial control system. The system includes a computer and a plurality of process graphics including software objects for controlling and/or monitoring real world objects controlled by the control system. A display of a process graphic is automatically generated in a window or designated view including a tab. The process graphic is selected dependent on one or more logical groupings, or hierarchical positions in a structure, in which control system software objects representing the control objects, the real world objects, belong or are arranged. A view of a structure group including a selected object is automatically displayed including tabs, each of which tab being linked to another structure group in a structure view that also contains an instance of the selected object. An engineer or other user can easily find and navigate to all instances of a selected object when configuring etc a control system. A system, a user interface and a computer program are also described. | 05-06-2010 |
20110144776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SIMPLIFIED OPERATION AND MANIPULATION OF AN AUTOMATION AND/OR PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM - A system and method are provided for the simplified operation of an automation system. The system and method link knowledge-based and/or empirical and historical data to real-time data, such as alarm messages and/or event messages, in cooperation with a control system, such as a process control system. Data and/or links or references to data and/or process states are acquired and stored by means of a first data processing device and can be made available to at least one second data processing device for further processing via at least one allocated communication link, such as a network or bus system. | 06-16-2011 |
20120254792 | Method And System For Providing An HMI In A Process Control System For Monitoring And Control Of A Process - A method for navigating in a process control system. The process control system includes a graphical user interface with a plurality of graphic objects each associated with a process control object wherein a graphic object has an active link for monitoring or controlling at least one physical control object. The graphical user interface is arranged with navigation means so that a user can indicate or select one point in a process section on the graphical user interface as a first user input and increase, in a continuous animated movement, the scale at which the point and its immediate surroundings in the process section are displayed. Further, the zooming-in or zooming out continues displaying a view of the indicated or otherwise selected point on the graphical user interface and scaling it up continuously until a predetermined scale is reached or, until a second user input is received. | 10-04-2012 |
20130212516 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A CONTROL SYSTEM USER INTERFACE - A graphical user interface for an industrial control system including a computer. The graphical user interface includes a display device. A plurality of process graphics including at least one software object for controlling and/or monitoring real world objects controlled by the control system are arranged such that elements of at least a portion of at least one software object may be displayed on the interface displayed on the display device. Computer program instructions generate and display in the graphical user interface a main view including a first process graphic in a window. The first process graphic is a member of a predetermined group of process graphics. The main view includes a designated view including at least one tab directly linked to other members of the predetermined group. Selecting one of the tabs allows the user to navigate to one of the predetermined group of process graphics. | 08-15-2013 |
20140121790 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE GESTURE CONTROL OF A SCREEN IN A CONTROL ROOM - An operation and observation system of a technical plant and/or a technical process and associated method are provided for operating components and for displaying measurement readings, process variables and/or status messages of the components of the plant and/or process. The system includes at least one large screen for displaying the components of the technical process and/or technical plant, and a plurality of operator workstations. A movement detection and movement control component is installed on the screen and on the operator workstations, which allows an operation and/or polling of the components, the measurement readings, the process variables and/or the status messages of the components of the technical plant or of the technical process by means of a body movement of an operator. | 05-01-2014 |