Patent ID: 7813817
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for displaying applicable steps of a procedure to assist one or more operators in an execution of procedure steps in a complex process facility to manage a complex process and other users to monitor the complex process, comprising a plurality of sensors for generating signals representative of a real-time value of a plurality of facility parameters that indicate various conditions of a process; a server having one or more databases and computer program modules in electrical communication with said sensor signals and operable to provide a server output along a computer network that identifies the steps of a procedure applicable to the process conditions identified by the sensor signals wherein the one or more databases comprise: one or more workstations connected to the computer network for receiving and displaying the server output and for requesting information from the server wherein the server output comprises a text and structure of the procedure, as well as associated logic and meta data and the workstation defines a format in which the server output is presented to the operator or other user; and a request handler module for managing and satisfying access and information requests from the one or more computer workstations by drawing on outputs of the procedure data base, a document database and an authorization database to provide the server output to the one or more workstation.