Compact batch viewing techniques for use in batch processes

摘要

A data collection and viewing application associated with a batch process control system used within a process plant provides a user interface that allows a user to quickly and easily examine a particular batch process or a batch run, to compare separate batch runs and/or to determine whether the particular batch run deviates from a norm, without having to perform a lot of manual data manipulation. To this end, the user interface provides or creates a compact graphical representation of a batch, illustrating a number of different types of batch-related data in relation to one another in a manner that enables a user to easily view or understand the operation of the batch run, either alone or as compared with one or more other batch runs. Generally speaking, the compact batch view includes a number of graphical layers which are juxtaposed or interleaved on a display, with each of the layers providing different types of information about the operation of the batch, time synchronized with one another. A base layer of the compact batch view may describe or indicate the duration of the batch from an activate time to a deactivate time, while different aspects of the procedural elements, steps or stages of the batch process, such as those identified by the S88 standard, may be illustrated in one or more additional layers. Moreover, process alarms, alerts, events, etc. as well as other information may be placed in one or more additional layers, and the various layers may be shown together to provide a compact graphical view of the batch.

主权项

1. A method for displaying batch data associated with one or more batch runs of a batch process, comprising:
collecting multiple types of batch data associated with the one or more batch runs of the batch process from process equipment within the process plant; and generating a batch display showing a batch view illustrating the multiple types of batch data associated with the one or more batch runs of the batch process, the batch view including a time scale and a multiplicity of batch data layers disposed in relation to the time scale illustrating the times at which different events occurred within the one or more batch runs of the batch process, wherein each of the multiplicity of batch data layers comprises a base layer indicating total duration and start and end times, and wherein, for each batch data layer, the batch view includes multiple different types of icons associated with different types of the different events, each type of icon having a different shape and each icon indicating on the base layer a corresponding time of an event associated with the icon.