Techniques are described for receiving manufacturing data and events over real time and non-real time interfaces and associating the data with one another. In one example, real time data is received, the real time data associated with a counter value assigned by a precision counter. The received real time data is stored in a storage buffer, and non-real time data is received, where the non-real time data associated with a counter value assigned by the precision counter. In response to receiving the non-real time data, the buffer is searched for real time data having a matching counter value and, in response to identifying stored real time data associated with a matching counter value, the non-real time data is associated with the real time data based on the match. Data packages are generated including related real time and non-real time data associated with matching counter values.

A method is, inter alia, disclosed, which comprises the following: obtaining and/or holding available production parameter information of a packaging system, wherein the production parameter information for one or a plurality of predefined production parameters of the packaging system in each case represents a course recorded for a predefined previous time period; determining at least for each of the predefined production parameters a respective course expected for a predefined future time period at least partially based on the production parameter information; displaying or causing to display a production parameter course view as part of a graphic user surface, wherein a first section of the production parameter course view graphically represents the courses of the predefined production parameters recorded for the predefined previous time period and wherein a second section of the production parameter course view following the first section graphically represents the courses of the predefined production parameters expected for the predefined future time period.

Techniques for comparing two or more sessions of a manufacturing process are described. In one example, a particular metric associated with execution of a manufacturing process is identified, the particular metric evaluated in a plurality of manufacturing process sessions for at least one manufacturing process. A particular session particular session from the plurality of manufacturing process sessions is selected as a baseline session, wherein at least a portion of the remaining plurality of manufacturing process sessions are to be compared to the baseline session. In a primary portion of a presentation area, a visualization of the values of the identified metric associated with the particular session are presented. In a secondary portion of the presentation area, visualizations of the values of the identified metric associated with at least a portion of the other manufacturing process sessions from the plurality of sessions is presented.

A method is, inter alia, disclosed, which comprises the following: providing a graphic user surface for monitoring and/or controlling a packaging system, wherein the graphic user surface comprises a production parameter course view for displaying one or a plurality of predefined production parameters of the packaging system, wherein the production parameter course view for each of the predefined production parameters graphically represents at least one course of the respective production parameter in a previous time period and the respective current production parameter value, wherein the graphic user surface further comprises at least one alternative view that can be activated and wherein the production parameter course view and the alternative view are configured such that the alternative view is displayed when the alternative view is activated in such a way that the alternative view only partially covers the production parameter course view and a first section of the production parameter course view is displayed with the graphic representations of the current production parameter values of the predefined production parameters.

Techniques are described for receiving visualizing two-dimensional (2D) metric data in connection with a three-dimensional (3D) visualization data of a manufacturing process. In one example, a 3D visualization of machine-related data from a process session for manufacturing a particular workpiece is presented, the manufacturing process performed by a machine operating in 3D, the machine-related data associated with a path taken by a tool or end-effector associated with the machine and/or the machine itself during the manufacturing process session. At least one 2D data set is provided representing a metric associated with manufacturing process session. A particular set is selected for presentation within the presented 3D visualization of the machine-related data. A connection between values of the 2D metric set and the machine-related data of the 3D visualization is determined and, based on the connection, the selected 2D metric set is incorporated into the 3D visualization of the machine-related data.

Techniques are described for receiving manufacturing data and events over real time and non-real time interfaces and associating the data with one another. In one example, real time data is received, the real time data associated with a counter value assigned by a precision counter. The received real time data is stored in a storage buffer, and non-real time data is received, where the non-real time data associated with a counter value assigned by the precision counter. In response to receiving the non-real time data, the buffer is searched for real time data having a matching counter value and, in response to identifying stored real time data associated with a matching counter value, the non-real time data is associated with the real time data based on the match. Data packages are generated including related real time and non-real time data associated with matching counter values.

Techniques for comparing two or more sessions of a manufacturing process are described. In one example, a particular metric associated with execution of a manufacturing process is identified, the particular metric evaluated in a plurality of manufacturing process sessions for at least one manufacturing process. A particular session particular session from the plurality of manufacturing process sessions is selected as a baseline session, wherein at least a portion of the remaining plurality of manufacturing process sessions are to be compared to the baseline session. In a primary portion of a presentation area, a visualization of the values of the identified metric associated with the particular session are presented. In a secondary portion of the presentation area, visualizations of the values of the identified metric associated with at least a portion of the other manufacturing process sessions from the plurality of sessions is presented.

Techniques are described for receiving visualizing two-dimensional (2D) metric data in connection with a three-dimensional (3D) visualization data of a manufacturing process. In one example, a 3D visualization of machine-related data from a process session for manufacturing a particular workpiece is presented, the manufacturing process performed by a machine operating in 3D, the machine-related data associated with a path taken by a tool or end-effector associated with the machine and/or the machine itself during the manufacturing process session. At least one 2D data set is provided representing a metric associated with manufacturing process session. A particular set is selected for presentation within the presented 3D visualization of the machine-related data. A connection between values of the 2D metric set and the machine-related data of the 3D visualization is determined and, based on the connection, the selected 2D metric set is incorporated into the 3D visualization of the machine-related data.

Techniques are described for viewing a plurality of related presentation areas linked to a set of machine-related data. In one example, a machine-related data set associated with a manufacturing process session for manufacturing a particular workpiece is presented, the data set representing a common data set presented in a plurality of presentation areas, each associated with a separate view on the machine-related data set. In one of the presentation areas, a selection of a particular group of data points is identified and that presentation area is updated. Reference values associated with the common data set are identified based on the selected group of data points. For each of the other presentation areas, (1) a particular set of data included in the particular other presentation area corresponding to the identified reference values is identified and (2) the corresponding presentation area is updated based on that identified data set.

The present invention provides a means capable of accumulating images representing captured states of work without requiring cumbersome input operations to be made by a worker. Terminal device 11 is a mobile communication terminal device incorporating a camera, and can communicate data with server device 13 via mobile phone network 8 and Internet 9. A worker who performs work in work area 7 accesses server device 13 using terminal device 11 and causes terminal device 11 to display a list of tasks, of which the worker is in charge; from server device 13. When the worker who has selected a work detail item corresponding to work to be started by the worker from the list performs the recording start operation, terminal device 11 sequentially transmits image data captured at predetermined time intervals by the camera to server device 13. The image data are stored in server device 13 in association with data for identifying work details to be recorded. The manager or the like of the work accesses server device 13 using terminal device 15 and can confirm states of work performed in the past by viewing images of the work.