Patent ID: 7333991

Claim:
A web-based plant document retrieval system, comprising: a processor; a hierarchy of components within a plant of a coal processing factory; a database of documents and information related to the plant of the coal processing factory structured in accordance with said hierarchy; a processor software application enters relevant information to identity function of each component into the database in an appropriate hierarchical location; the processor software application creates a visual representation of the plant of the coal processing factory; the processor software application creates a software tree whose nodes are corresponding to the hierarchy of components and sub-components of the plant of the coal processing factory; the processor software application links nodes of the software tree and the visual representation to database stored entity information via Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings created, where the linking maintains interrelationships between the components of the plant of the coal processing factory; the processor software application dynamically creates a browser viewable web page for said URL strings by identifying a logical order for a browser viewable web page from information in the URL strings, the logical order defines relation of the browser viewable web page to other browser viewable web pages and a page generating function that interrelates data to a visual model using a plant identifier (ID), model identifier (ID), circuit identifier (ID), and unit identifier (ID); the processor software application interrelates the web pages to one another in a manner corresponding to spatial relationship of the components and sub-components of the plant of the coal processing factory; a digital visual model of the plant of the coal processing factory created using a digital photograph, where nodes of the software tree are assigned to plants within the model; and the processor software application links nodes of the software tree to the web pages containing identify and functional information relative to the nodes.