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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019102073-A1
Application number	US-201816117572-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 30, 2018
Priority date	Oct 2, 2017
Publication date	Apr 4, 2019
Grant date	—

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 configuring a display of historized process parameter values in a process plant, the method comprising:
obtaining, via a user interface of a computing device executing a graphical configuration application in a configuration environment of a process plant, an indication of a first display region that is included in a layout of a display view and in which a trend display view is to be presented in an operating environment of the process plant; identifying, by the graphical configuration application, a second display region included in the layout of the display view to link to the trend display view, such that the trend display view presents, in the operating environment of the process plant, indications of one or more sets of historized process parameter values of one or more process parameters corresponding to one or more process control elements that are indicated in the second display region; generating, by the graphical configuration application, a link between the first and second display regions; and downloading the configured display view including the link from the configuration environment into a user interface device for execution in the operating environment of the process plant to thereby cause a presentation, at the user interface device in the trend display view of the first display region and based on the link included in the downloaded configured display view, of respective trends of the one or more process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements indicated in the second display region, the one or more process control elements indicated in the second display region including at least one of a control module, function block, or a process section of the process plant.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying a second display region included in the layout of the display view to associate with the trend display view includes receiving, via the user interface of the graphical configuration application, a selection of the second display region to associate with the trend display view.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the graphical configuration application, a maximum number of process parameters to present in the trend display view.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein determining the maximum number of process parameters to present in the display view includes:
presenting, via the user interface of the graphical configuration application, a user control for selecting the maximum number of process parameters to present in the display view; and receiving, via the user control, a selection of the maximum number.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
assigning priority levels to the one or more process parameters corresponding to the second display region, wherein the one or more process parameters corresponding to the second display region are ranked according to priority level, and respective indications of sets of historized process parameter values of respective process parameters corresponding to the second display region and ranked above the maximum number are presented in the trend display view.

6 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the maximum number of process parameters to present in the trend display view increases as a level of detail for the second display region indicating one or more process control elements increases.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more process parameters are default process parameters or are selected at the graphical configuration application or an operator application.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the indication of the first display region in which the trend display view is to be presented includes obtaining the indication of the first display region in which a trend display view including one or more charts is to be presented, each of the one or more charts presenting a graphical depiction of a different one of the one or more sets of historized process parameter values.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising configuring the trend display view to, when executing in the operating environment of the process plant:
obtain, from the second display region and based on the link, a respective identifier for each process control element indicated in the second display region, retrieve, via a data historian device and based on the obtained identifiers, the one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more process control elements indicated in the second display region, and present a respective graphical depiction of at least one of the retrieved one or more sets of historized process parameter values on the trend display view.

10 . A method for presenting historized process parameter values in a process plant, the method comprising:
presenting, via a user interface of a computing device executing an operator application in an operating environment of a process plant, indications of process control elements in a first display region included in a layout of a display view, each of the process control elements corresponding to one or more 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 the one or more process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements presented in the linked first display region; and 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 process parameters corresponding to the one or more process control elements presented in the first display region based on the obtained link.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the first display region presents indications of first process control elements corresponding to a first control module, function block, or process section of the process plant and further comprising:
receiving, via the user interface, a request to present a graphical representation of a second control module, function block, or process section in the first display region; presenting, via the user interface, indications of second process control elements corresponding to the second control module, function block, or process section in the first display region, each of the second process control elements corresponding to one or more second process parameters; and presenting, via the user interface, the trend display view in the second display region within the layout of the display view, the trend display view including indications of one or more sets of historized process parameter values of the one or more second process parameters corresponding to the one or more second process control elements presented in the first display region.

12 . The method of claim 10 , 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.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the respective identifier

Assignees

• Fisher Rosemount Systems Inc

Inventors

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

Classifications

• G06T11/26

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• G09G5/14

  Display of multiple viewports · CPC title

• G06F40/166 Primary

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title

• G05B2219/31472

  Graphical display of process · 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