PROCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE MEMORY MEDIUM, AND SIDEBAR APPLICATION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interface in a process control environment.SOLUTION: A secondary or sidebar display in a process control environment provides several small applications to allow business managers, engineers, maintenance personnel, or other non-operator personnel to organize and manage process control system information and to display selected diagnostics and summary information or key operating parameters for the process control system. A sidebar application may communicate with other applications that are executing on a non-operator user's workstation to thereby retrieve information related to tasks that the user is currently doing. The sidebar application then determines whether certain process control information may be useful for a main task the user is doing, and displays that process control information within the sidebar.