Personalized plant asset data representation and search system

摘要

A process control system collects data, or status information, pertaining to assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant. The collected information may then be accessed by a user through a user interface routine displaying a graphical user interface to that user's computer. An asset data and search expert tracks user interaction with plant data by, for example, tracking the types of search fields a user most frequently searches with or the type of information a user more frequently browses for. The expert automatically profiles this tracked information to develop user preferences that are later used in personalizing the reporting of asset data, personalizing searching for asset data, and personalizing the results of such searches.

主权项

1. A method of reporting status information, the method comprising:
receiving, at a process control user interface, a user request from a user and identifying an area or device within a process plant based on the user request, wherein the area or device is associated with a first plurality of status indicators representing a measurement of health or performance of the area or device, each of the first plurality of status indicators representing a status of the area or device; receiving, from a data source in response to the user request, user-personalized status indicators regarding the area or device, wherein the user-personalized status indicators represent a personalized selection, with respect to the user, of a subset of the first plurality of status indicators based on profile data associated with the user; prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators based on historical user preference data of the user to identify a subset of high priority user-personalized status indicators within the user-personalized status indicators, wherein prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators comprises:
(i) automatically tracking user interaction data representing a frequency with which a user has viewed a plurality of previously displayed status indicators, where the plurality of previously displayed status indicators may include one or more of the user-personalized status indicators and where such user tracking occurs automatically without user initiated activation using an internal user interaction tracker capable of uninterrupted tracking of user interactions,(ii) profiling historical data, in response to tracking the user interaction data, to identify the historical user preference data, the historical user preference data identifying one or more of the user-personalized status indicators as correlated to the user based on interaction time with one or more of the previously displayed status indicators, and(iii) designating the one or more user-personalized status indicators correlated to the user as the high priority user-personalized status indicators; generating a user-tailored report that includes the high priority user-personalized status indicators ranked above other of the user-personalized status indicators; and displaying, to the user, the user-tailored report that includes the high priority user-personalized status indicators ranked above other of the user-personalized status indicators.