Systems and methods for presenting a watch area display view in a process plant are provided. Indications of process control display elements may be presented via a user interface of a computing device executing an operator application in an operating environment of a process plant. The process control display elements may be displayed in a first display region in a display view, with each of the process control display elements corresponding to process parameters. Simultaneously with the first display region, a second display region (not occluding any process control display elements) may be presented in the display view. An indication that a user has selected one of the process control display elements in the first display region for display in the second display region may be received. The one or more process parameters corresponding to the selected process control display element may be displayed in the second display region.

Configuring graphical display views to be presented, at a user interface of an operating environment of a process plant, using multiple graphical display themes includes configuring a display theme object to indicate a plurality of themes via which the display view is able to be presented at the user interface. The display theme object includes a parameter whose value is changeable, within the operating environment, to indicate a desired theme that is to be utilized, and the display theme object is downloaded from the configuration environment into the operating environment. Thus, during runtime, changing the theme via which the graphical display view is presented is achieved without any additional downloads from or communications with the configuration environment. User controls may be provided to an operator to select different themes, and/or to override various visual aspects of themes to achieve optimum visibility. Themes may be automatically changed based on sensed conditions.

A data collection setting device of an industrial machine includes: a display unit that displays augmented reality; an industrial machine identifying unit that identifies the industrial machine in the real world displayed on the display unit; a data display control unit that displays, on the display unit, a virtual object relating to the data which are collectable in the identified industrial machine; a data collecting device display control unit that displays, on the display unit, an object indicating the data collecting device; an operation determining unit that determines operation of an operator with respect to the virtual object relating to the data and the object indicating the data collecting device displayed on the display unit, and identifies the data and the data collecting device; and a data collection setting generating unit that generates a setting for collecting the identified data of the industrial machine (10) in the identified data collecting device.

A method for operating and observing a technical plant to be controlled, wherein block symbols for plant schematics can be generated which are structured, personalized, and assembled dynamically at runtime which, for example, enable an efficiently guided and assisted handling of alarm messages by an operator, where the dynamically updated display of alarm-producing process objects based on an equipment hierarchy enables an evaluation of items causing floods of alarms.

A method of alarm notification includes providing data for an industrial process including stored alarm event data and stored Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data, and an alarm event-KPI correlation and operator notification system. Patterns of relationships are discovered between the stored alarm event and KPI data to provide a reference pattern database that identifies KPI violation events in the KPI data as a function of the alarm event data or alarm events in the alarm event data as a function of the KPI data. Pattern matching uses a real-time alarm event and real-time KPI data to determine a pattern similarity by comparing a current sequence spanning a predetermined time of the real-time alarm event and KPI data to the patterns. When the pattern matching identifies a current alarm event or KPI violation event, an operator is notified and a predicted KPI value or feature or a predicted alarm event.

Flexible graphic element objects in a process plant are configurable both in a run-time operating environment in which a process is being controlled and in a configuration environment. An instantiated flexible graphic element object may be a display view or may be another graphic element included on a display view. A graphic element object may be linked to and/or derived from another graphic element object, and changes to a particular graphic element object may be propagated to its derivations, e.g., according to a distribution policy. Changes to definitions corresponding to a particular graphic element object (e.g., to the definition of a graphic element attribute such as a shape, animation, event handler or property) may be overridden or modified in another object derived from the particular graphic element object. The modified derived object may be renamed and saved separately from the particular graphic element object.

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.

A method for controlling an automation system (1) comprising: rendering, by a processor, an image (16, 22, 40) from a three-dimensional scene representing at least part of the automation system (1) on the basis of position data and viewing direction data, displaying the image (16, 22, 40) on a display unit (10), wherein the automation system (1) comprises a plurality of components (2, 4, 18, 20), wherein a tree structure (24) is stored in a data memory in which nodes (28, 30, 32, 34) are assigned to the components (2, 4, 18, 20) of the automation system (1), is to process and display all details necessary for the tasks of controlling an automation system and on the other hand minimize the required computing capacity. For this purpose, a focus component is determined, and from the scene only those components (2, 4, 18, 20) of the part of the automation system (1) are loaded into the processor for rendering whose assigned nodes (28, 30, 32, 34) in the tree structure (24) have only a predetermined maximum distance from the node (28, 30, 32, 34) assigned to the focus component.

The invention relates to a smartwatch having a transmitter/receiver unit and a display unit, wherein the smartwatch is configured for receiving diagnosis notifications of a plurality of automation technology field devices by means of the transmitter/receiver unit, for analysing the received diagnosis notifications and classifying same in predefined device statuses, in particular in device statuses according to the NAMUR recommendation, as well as for displaying the classified device statuses of the field devices by means of the display unit. The invention also relates to a method for maintaining an automation technology system, in which a plurality of field devices are integrated, by means of a smartwatch according to the invention.

Flexible graphic element objects in a process plant are configurable both in a run-time operating environment in which a process is being controlled and in a configuration environment. An instantiated flexible graphic element object may be a display view or may be another graphic element included on a display view. A graphic element object may be linked to and/or derived from another graphic element object, and changes to a particular graphic element object may be propagated to its derivations, e.g., according to a distribution policy. Changes to definitions corresponding to a particular graphic element object (e.g., to the definition of a graphic element attribute such as a shape, animation, event handler or property) may be overridden or modified in another object derived from the particular graphic element object. The modified derived object may be renamed and saved separately from the particular graphic element object.