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

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interface within a process control environment. PSOLUTION: A secondary or "sidebar" display within display may provide 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. Further, sidebar applications may communicate with other applications that are executed on a non-operator user's workstation to, thereby, retrieve information related to tasks that the user is currently performing. The sidebar application may then determine whether certain process control information may be useful for the main task the user is completing and display the process control information within the sidebar. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT