Patent ID: 8286726

Claim:
A control apparatus for controlling a rock drilling rig performing a multi-phase rock drilling event comprising three or more different rock drilling phases, the control apparatus comprising: a display; an input device for receiving user inputs; and at least one control unit that controls information to be displayed on the display, wherein the control unit is configured to display a working phase indicator on the display, and that one or more rock drilling phase-specific display information elements are associated with at least some of the different rock-drilling phases of the rock drilling event in binding information stored in a memory of the control apparatus, wherein the control apparatus is configured to specify one of the different rock drilling phases of the rock drilling event, wherein the control unit is configured to update the working phase indicator to display at least one display information element that is automatically specified on the basis of information indicative of the rock drilling phase and the binding information, wherein the control unit is configured to display a plurality of information elements in the working phase indicator, at least two information elements at a time, each of the information elements indicating a different working phase, the working phase indicator being adapted to indicate at least two of a present working phase, a previous working phase, or a following working phase, and wherein each one of the present working phase, the previous working phase, and the following working phase is one of the three or more different rock drilling phases.