VISUALIZATION EMPLOYING HEAT MAPS TO CONVEY QUALITY, PROGNOSTICS, OR DIAGNOSTICS INFORMATION

• US 20130245795A1
• Filed: 05/06/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Inventors: McGreevy, Robert Joseph, Pantaleano, Michael John, Fuller, Bruce Gordon, Tooke, Ian Edward, Albert, Kevin John, Baier, John Joseph, Pingel, Jan
• Granted Patent: US 8,756,035 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/83
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/048 Monitoring; Safety
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0267 Fault communication, e.g. human machine interface [HMI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites

Abstract

A visualization system for creating, displaying and animating overview and detail heat map displays for industrial automation. The visualization system connects the heat map displays to an interface component providing manual or automatic input data from an industrial process or an archive of historical industrial process input data. The animated heat map displays providing quality, prognostic or diagnostic information.

Claims

1. A system for visualizing multi-color industrial displays, comprising:

a memory comprising computer-executable components; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable components, the computer-executable components comprising;

a display generation component configured to initiate generation of a first heat map display representing first information relating to a device associated with an industrial automation system and a second heat map display representing second information relating to a component of the device; and

a visualization component configured to modify the first heat map display in response to a first determination that a first subset of data received from the industrial automation system indicates a first change in a first operational state of the device, and modify the second heat map display in response to a second determination that a second subset of the data indicates a second change in a second operational state of the component.

2. The system of claim 1, the computer-executable components further comprising an interface component configured to receive the data from the industrial automation system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the display generation component is further configured to at least partially overlay a representation of the device over the second heat map display.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the display generation component is further configured to initiate a change between a first presentation of the second heat map display that renders overview information relating to the operational state of the component and a second presentation of the second heat map that renders additional information relating to the operational state of the component.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the display generation component is further configured to initiate the change in response to a determination that a third subset of the data satisfies a criterion.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a data store configured to store at least one of source address information, filter information, classifier information, preference information, profile information, design layout information, rule information, or historical data for use by the display generation component in connection with generating at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the display generation component is further configured to generate at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display based at least in part on historical data collected from the industrial automation system.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the visualization component is further configured to render real-time or near real-time data collected from the industrial automation system concurrently with at least a subset of the historical data on the at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display is configured to render prognostic information identifying a potential failure occurrence of the device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display is configured to render maintenance information identifying a recommended maintenance activity to be performed on the device.

11. An operator interface product, comprising:

a display component; and

a processor, coupled to a memory, that facilitates execution of computer-executable components stored on the memory to perform operations, comprising;

displaying, on a first heat map display, first data relating to a device of an industrial process;

displaying, on a second heat map display, second data relating to a component of the device;

altering the first heat map display based on a first determination that the first data indicates a first change in a first operational state of the device; and

altering the second heat map display based on a second determination that the second data indicates a second change in a second operational state of the component.

12. The operator interface product of claim 11, the wherein the operations further comprise overlaying at least a portion of a graphical representation of the device over the second heat map display.

13. The operator interface product of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise facilitating a transition between a first presentation of the second heat map display that renders overview information relating to the operational state of the component and a second presentation of the second heat map that renders additional information relating to the operational state of the component.

14. The operator interface product of claim 13, wherein the facilitating the transition comprises facilitating the transition based on a determination that at least one of the first data or the second data satisfies a criterion.

15. The operator interface product of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise storing, in the memory, at least one of source address information, filter information, classifier information, preference information, profile information, design layout information, rule information, or historical data for use in connection with at least one of the displaying the first heat map display or the displaying the second heat map display.

16. The operator interface product of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise generating at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display based at least in part on historical data collected for the industrial process.

17. The operator interface product of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise displaying real-time or near real-time data collected from the industrial process simultaneously with at least a subset of the historical data on the at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display.

18. The operator interface product of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise displaying, on at least one of the first heat map display or the second heat map display, prognostic data indicating a potential failure of the device.

19. A method, comprising:

generating, by a system comprising a processor, a first graphical heat map configured to render first data relating to a device associated with an industrial automation system;

generating a second graphical heat map configured to render second data relating to a component of the device;

in response to determining that the first data is indicative of a first change in a first operational state of the device, modifying the first graphical heat map; and

in response to determining that the second data is indicative of a second change to a second operational state of the component, modifying the second graphical heat map.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising overlaying at least a portion of a representation of the device over the second graphical heat map.