Patent ID: 7433741
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: G05B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An industrial automation system, comprising: a context component to determine a user's identity, role, location (logical or physical), current activity, or previous interactions with automation devices; a device component that detects or determines context data pertaining to automation devices including control systems, devices and associated equipment; an information retrieval component that automatically determines information that a user is interested in, based at least in part on an analysis of context information associated with the user, the information is germane to a user's current location or activity based in part on a mapping between at least two sets of information; at least one base presentation component to display one or more elements of an industrial control environment to the user; and one or more display items that are dynamically superimposed on the base presentation component to provide industrial control information to the user, the one or more display items based at least in part on the automatically determined information.