Systems and methods for automatically populating a display area with historized process parameters

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11467720-B2
Application number	US-202017026492-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2020
Priority date	Oct 2, 2017
Publication date	Oct 11, 2022
Grant date	Oct 11, 2022

Abstract

Techniques for presenting historized process parameter values in a process plant include presenting, via a user interface of an operator application, indications of process control elements in a first display region within a layout of a display view. Each of the process control elements is associated with one or more process parameters. The operator application also presents a trend display view in a second display region within the layout of the display view. The trend display view includes sets of historized process parameter values for process parameters presented in the first display region. For example, the trend display view in the second display region is linked to the display view in the first display region. In this manner, the trend display view presents charts or other graphical depictions of historized process parameter values for process parameters included in the first display region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for presenting historized process parameter values in a process plant, the method comprising:
obtaining, via a user interface of a computing device executing an operator application in an operating environment of a process plant, a selection of a first section of a process plant for displaying a first set of process control elements in one of a plurality of regions in a layout of a display view, the process plant including a plurality of sections each including a different set of process control elements;
presenting, via the user interface, indications of the selected first set of process control elements in a first display region included in the layout of the display view, each of the selected first set of process control elements corresponding to one or more first process parameters;
obtaining a link between the first display region and a second display region including a trend display view, wherein the link indicates that the trend display view presents indications of one or more sets of historized process parameter values of one or more process parameters corresponding to a selected set of process control elements presented in the linked first display region;
presenting, via the user interface, the trend display view in the second display region included in the layout of the display view, the trend display view including the indications of the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more first process parameters of the selected first section of the process plant;
obtaining, via the user interface, a selection of a second section of the process plant for displaying a second set of process control elements in one of the plurality of regions in the layout of the display view;
presenting, via the user interface, indications of the selected second section of the process plant in the first display region, each of the selected second set of process control elements corresponding to one or more second process parameters of the selected second section of the process plant;
automatically identifying the one or more second process parameters corresponding to the selected second set of process control elements presented in the linked first display region;
retrieving the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the automatically identified one or more second process parameters; and
updating, via the user interface, the trend display view to include the indications of the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more second process parameters.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the operator application from the first display region and based on the link, a respective identifier for each of the process control elements presented in the first display region;
providing the respective identifiers for each of the process control elements to a data historian device; and
receiving, from the data historian device, the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the respective identifiers for each of the process control elements presented in the first display region are obtained in response to receiving a request to present a graphical representation of a new control module, function block, or process section in the first display region.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
obtaining a maximum number of process parameters to present in the display view; and
presenting, via the user interface, the trend display view including the indications of the one or more sets of historized process parameter values corresponding to at most the maximum number of process parameters.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
assigning a priority level to each of the process parameters corresponding to the first display region;
ranking the process parameters according to the respective priority levels; and
presenting, via the user interface, the trend display view including indications of one or more of the sets of historized process parameter values ranked above the maximum number.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the data historian device includes a plurality of data historian devices, and wherein providing the identifier for each of the process control elements to a data historian device includes providing the respective identifiers for each of the process control elements to at least one of the plurality of data historian devices which provides the one or more sets of historized process parameter values corresponding to each process control element to the computing device.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein for each of the process control elements, the plurality of data historian devices communicate with each other to identify a data historian device of the plurality of data historian devices that stores the one or more sets of historized process parameter values corresponding to the respective process control element.

8. A system for presenting historized process parameter values in a process plant, the system comprising:
one or more devices disposed in the process plant each performing a physical function to control an industrial process; and
a computing device including: one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing an operator application thereon, that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing device to:
obtain, via a user interface of the operator application in an operating environment of a process plant, a selection of a first section of a process plant for displaying a first set of process control elements one of a plurality of regions in a layout of a display view, the process plant including a plurality of sections each including a different set of process control elements;
present, via the user interface, indications of the selected first set of process control elements in a first display region included in the layout of the display view, each of the selected first set of process control elements corresponding to the one or more devices disposed in the process plant and corresponding to one or more first process parameters;
obtain a link between the first display region and a second display region including a trend display view, wherein the link indicates that the trend display view presents indications of one or more sets of historized process parameter values of tho one or more process parameters corresponding to a selected set of process control elements presented in the linked first display region;
present, via the user interface, the trend display view in the second display region included in the layout of the display view, the trend display view including the indications of the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more first process parameters of the selected first section of the process plant;
obtain, via the user interface, a selection of a second section of the process plant for displaying a second set of process control elements in one of the plurality of regions in the layout of the display view;
present, via the user interface, indications of the selected second section of the process plant in the first display region, each of the selected second set of process control elements corresponding to one or more second process parameters of the selected second section of the process plant;
automatically identify the one or more second process parameters corresponding to the selected second set of process control elements presented in the linked first display region;
retrieve the one or more sets of historized process parameter va

Assignees

• Fisher Rosemount Systems Inc

Inventors

• Naidoo Julian K
• Strinden Daniel R
• Scott Cindy A
• Nixon Mark J
• Fadul Camilo
• Havekost Robert

Classifications

• G06T11/26

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• G05B19/418 Primary

  Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM] · CPC title

• G05B19/042

  using digital processors (G05B19/05 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G05B19/409

  characterised by using manual data input [MDI] or by using control panel, e.g. controlling functions with the panel; characterised by control panel details or by setting parameters (G05B19/408, G05B19/4093 take precedence) · CPC title

• G06F40/58

  Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation · CPC title