JP2002140114A - Display for monitoring operation - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To freely prepare a face plate window based on definition information of a user. SOLUTION: This operation monitoring display concerned in process control is provided with a link part tool means for preparing link parts based on face plate design information comprising a display design, an operation design and a wide use name definition defined by the user, a graphic builder means for executing arrangement of the link parts and allocation of a wide use name set to prepare a graphic object, and a graphic window means for reading the graphic object to display the user definition.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in the function of creating a faceplate design in an operation monitoring display device for process control.

Prior to the description of the prior art, an outline of a process control apparatus to which the present invention is applied will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure, a control unit 2 monitors and controls the plant 1. Then, based on the monitoring result, the control unit 2 uses the drawing data stored in the storage unit 3 to display (CRT)
4 displays an operation monitoring window. The operation unit 5 operates the control unit 2 with a keyboard or a mouse.

[0003] The control section 2 comprises monitoring control means 21 and display processing means 22. The control unit 2 is generally constituted by a computer, and includes a monitoring control unit 21 and a display processing unit 2.
2 is generally described by a program. This program is generally stored on a recording medium (FDD, CD-ROM).
Etc.) or downloaded from a higher-level computer via a network.

[0004] The monitoring control means 21 monitors the plant 1 and controls various processes in the plant 1. The display processing unit 22 receives the monitoring result from the monitoring control unit 21, calls the drawing data determined based on the scaling instruction from the storage unit 3, calculates the size, and performs a display process on the display unit 4. Execute.

[0005] The storage unit 3 is, for example, a hard disk or the like, and stores screen data 31 and instrument display data 32. The screen data 31 includes type information to be drawn on the screen, size information, position information, operation adjustment key information, and the like.

The types of window display by the display unit 4 include a graphic window, a control drawing status display window, and a logic chart status display window. The graphic window displays virtual instrument diagrams, data, buttons, and the like for the operator to monitor the operation of the system.

[0007] The control drawing status display window includes:
This window shows the flow of system processing, and displays input / output values, setting values, and the like of the system. The logic chart window is a window showing a flow of a data value calculation process and the like.

The present invention relates to an improvement in the function of creating a faceplate design in a graphic window for displaying a virtual instrument diagram, data, buttons, etc. among these windows. Reference numeral 6 denotes an engineering PC unit that creates a graphic object related to a face plate and downloads the graphic object to the storage unit 3 via a network or the like.

[0009]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 9 shows an example of a conventional faceplate window. (A) is an example of an analog faceplate window, and (B) is an example of a discrete analog faceplate window. The faceplate window in this case is a virtual instrument diagram, and displays a single instrument (one loop) on a 1: 1 screen, usually corresponding to the keyboard function of the operation unit (5 in FIG. 11). 8 loops are displayed as one set.

The face plate window is displayed as a file in which display and operation specifications called an instrument specification file are written. The instrument specification file is created by the manufacturer as a standard and provided to the user, and the user cannot change the specification.

[0011]

Since the face plate window is a window for operation and monitoring on the front,
It does not satisfy the user's requirements, such as wanting to display more graphically or to create a free faceplate window for each job to display the job's features.

It does not satisfy the user's demand for displaying graphical parts such as valves on the faceplate window.

In a cascade control system in which the output of the temperature controller TIC is set to the flow controller FIC as shown in FIG. 10, a face plate window in which two instruments TIC and FIC are associated and integrated has good operability. However, specifications that support only the display of each individual instrument do not satisfy such user requirements.

[0014]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an operation monitoring display device relating to process control, which comprises a display design and an operation defined by a user. Link part tool means for creating link parts based on faceplate design information comprising at least one of a design and a generic name definition, and a graphic builder for creating a graphic object by arranging the link parts and assigning a generic name set Means and graphic window means for reading the graphic object and displaying the user definition.

[0015] A feature of the present invention is that a plurality of the universal name sets are created and selectively assigned. Furthermore, a feature of the invention described in claim 3 is that a plurality of the link parts are created and selectively allocated.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a graphic object is created by executing link parts tool means for creating link parts based on the face plate design information and arranging the link parts and assigning a universal name set. It consists of an engineering PC having graphic builder and an operation monitoring PC which downloads the graphic object via a network.

A feature of the present invention resides in that an arbitrary user-defined faceplate window is called by selecting a list of user-defined faceplate window names created by the graphic builder.

[0018]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The present invention provides a display processing unit 22 in a process control device to which the present invention described with reference to FIG.
The storage unit 3 and the engineering PC 6 are provided with new functional improvements.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the operation monitoring display device of the present invention. The link part tool means 7 includes a display design, an operation design,
A link part (design) is created based on face plate design information including at least one generic name definition. The graphic builder means 8 creates a graphic object by arranging link parts and assigning a universal name set. Graphic window means 9
Reads a graphic object and displays the user definition.

FIG. 2 is an image diagram of creating a faceplate window according to the present invention. (A) is a list of designs created by the user based on the face plate design information by link parts tool means and made into a database,
(B) shows a list of universal name sets similarly stored in a database, and (C) shows a face plate window in which data selected one by one from the design list and the universal name set list is synthesized and displayed.

FIG. 2C shows an analog type face plate window, FIG. 3 shows a discrete type face plate window, and FIG. 4 shows a face plate window integrally displaying two instruments in the cascade control system described with reference to FIG. In this way, the user can create a free faceplate window for each job by selectively combining the pre-registered design information and general-purpose name set information, and display the job in a special color.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the relationship between the engineering PC means 6 and the operation monitoring PC means 2, both of which are connected via a network means 10. The engineering PC means 6 includes a link part tool means 7 and a graphic builder means 8, and the operation monitoring PC means 2 includes a graphic window means 9.
Is provided. The graphic object is downloaded to the operation monitoring PC means 2 via the network 10.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of user work in the present invention.
There are three stages: a design creation stage (A), an engineering stage (B), and an operation stage (C).

First, in the design creation stage (A), a user-defined face plate window design document is created based on a JOB request. The work content is the definition of the display design, the operation design, and the generic name.

Next, in the engineering stage (B), the contents of the face plate window design document are input to the engineering PC means 6. In the engineering PC means, the creation of a design is executed by the link part tool means 7, and the arrangement of link parts and the assignment of a universal name set are executed by the graphic builder means 8 to create a graphic object.

In the operation stage (C), the graphic object is downloaded to the operation monitoring PC means 2 and the face plate selectively synthesized by the graphic window means 9 is displayed.

Here, the link parts tool is a tool for making frequently used drawing parts into parts, and the user-defined face plate is registered as a part and used for a plurality of purposes. create.
The graphic builder is a function for creating and editing a graphic window.

FIG. 7 is a work procedure showing such a work flow focusing on the flow of a database created by the engineering PC means and the operation monitoring PC means.

In the engineering PC means, part information is written from the link parts tool to the link parts database DB1 based on the input user-defined faceplate window design document. Graphic builder reads link parts information from DB1,
A general-purpose name set is assigned, a graphic object is created, and written to the database DB2.

In the operation monitoring PC means, graphic objects written in DB2 are stored in database DB3.
To be downloaded via a network or the like. The downloaded graphic object is read into the graphic window, and the faceplate window is displayed.

Next, the procedure for calling the user-defined faceplate window will be described with reference to FIG. To call the user-defined faceplate window, the "faceplate call window" is created by the graphic builder means, so that the operator can easily call it without knowing the universal name set.

(A) is a face plate call window created by the graphic builder means, in which a list of a plurality of face plate names including a universal name set is displayed. Each list corresponds to the general-purpose name set of the graphic window shown in FIG.

The operator selects a window to be called by a mouse click from the face plate calling window. In this figure, the general-purpose set name 03 is selected. In the graphic window, a graphic object file, which is a user-defined faceplate design created by the graphic builder, is combined with a general-purpose name set 03 selected by the operator, and a user-defined faceplate window as shown in (C) is created and displayed. .

[0034]

As is apparent from the above description,
According to the present invention, the faceplate window can be graphically displayed according to the user specification.
A free faceplate window can be created for each job, and the special color of the job can be displayed.

Graphical parts such as valves can be freely displayed on the face plate window.

As in the cascade control system, since a plurality of related instruments (tags) can be displayed in a faceplate window in an integrated manner, the efficiency of operation monitoring can be increased.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of an operation monitoring display device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an image diagram of creation of a face plate window according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a display example of a discrete faceplate window according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a display example of a cascade control system faceplate window according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an engineering PC means 6 in the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a relationship between the operation monitoring PC unit 2 and the operation monitoring PC unit 2.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a user operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a work procedure showing the work flow in the present invention by focusing on the flow of a database created by the engineering PC and the operation monitoring PC.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a calling procedure of a user-defined faceplate window according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a display example of a faceplate window in a conventional operation monitoring display device.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a general cascade control system.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating an outline of a process control device to which the present invention is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 Link part tool means 8 Graphic builder means 9 Graphic Windows means

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A link part tool means for creating a link part based on face plate design information comprising at least one of a display design, an operation design, and a universal name definition defined by a user in an operation monitoring display device relating to process control. A graphic builder means for creating a graphic object by arranging the link parts and allocating a generic name set, and a graphic window means for reading the graphic object and displaying the user definition apparatus. 2. The operation monitoring display device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said universal name sets are created and selectively assigned. 3. The operation monitoring display device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said link parts are created and selectively allocated. 4. Link part tool means for creating link parts based on said face plate design information;
An engineering PC having graphic builder means for creating a graphic object by arranging the link parts and allocating a generic name set, and an operation monitoring PC means for downloading the graphic object via a network. The operation monitoring display device according to claim 1. 5. An operation monitoring display device according to claim 1, wherein an arbitrary user-defined faceplate window is called by selecting a list of user-defined faceplate window names created by said graphic builder.