Patent ID: 9395891
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G05B,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a navigation tool for a user interface for an industrial control system comprising a computer and a display device or workstation, said system further arranged with a plurality of process graphics comprising one or more software objects for controlling and/or monitoring real world objects in a process controlled by said control system, which said software objects are arranged in a plurality of hierarchical groups each one representing a process, part-process or an equipment in which materials are moved and/or processed in a predetermined order from one process state to another, which process or equipment is displayed in one of a plurality of said process graphics on a workstation, characterised by automatically generating a graphic image in the form of a map showing the plurality of process graphics arranged symbolically as a plurality of nodes, where each node is spatially arranged in a separate part of the map according to a hierarchical relationship between the process graphics, and superimposing the graphic image of the map on top of a currently open said process graphic displayed on the workstation.