Patent ID: 9043003
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A process control management system for controlling and managing a plurality of devices operating within a process control plant, the system comprising: a process control plant including a functional area and a plurality of controllers for implementing a control strategy of the process control management system, each of the controllers communicatively linked to a device of the process control plant, the device performing a process function of the control strategy and including an operating parameter corresponding to operating parameter data produced while the device performs the process function; a first workstation computer including a first display device, a first processor, a first memory and a first sidebar routine maintained in the first memory that, when executed on the first processor, causes the first workstation computer to: the second workstation computer including a second processor, a second memory, a second display device, and a second sidebar routine maintained in the second memory that, when executed on the second processor, causes the second workstation to: wherein the second sidebar routine uses the sidebar configuration data file to: wherein the operating parameter data displayed within both the first sidebar graphical user interface and the second sidebar graphical user interface corresponds to the device of the process control plant performing the process function for the process control plant.