Patent ID: 6901560
Filing Date: 2005-05-31
Classification: G05B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A graphical user display for providing real-time process information to a user for a process that is operable under control of one or more process variables, wherein one or more of the process variables has high and low process limit values associated therewith, the graphical user display comprising one or more graphical devices, wherein each graphical device corresponds to a process variable, wherein at least one graphical device for a corresponding process variable comprises: a gauge axis; a first pair of high and low limit elements representative of user set engineering hard high and low limit values for the corresponding process variable that define a range in which operator set high and low limit values are set and a second pair of high and low limit elements representative of the operator set high and low limit values for the corresponding process variable which define a range in which the process is free to operate, wherein each of the operator set high and low limit values are adjustable so as to exert influence on the process, where the first and second pair of high and low limit elements are displayed on the gauge axis; and a graphical shape displayed along the gauge axis representative of a value of the corresponding process variable relative to the process limit values.