Patent ID: 7697850

Claim:
A system for monitoring printing stations on a printing production floor, the system comprising: a sensing element sensing a problem area of a printing station on the printing production floor, wherein the printing production floor includes a plurality of printing stations; a display system displaying a three-dimensional representation of an overview image of the printing production floor, an indication of the problem area of the printing station on the printing production floor, and photographic images of one or more portions of the printing station on the printing production floor inside of the three-dimensional representation of the overview image of the printing production floor; and a processor configured to visually correlating the photographic images to a portion of the three-dimensional image corresponding to the problem area, whereby when a problem area of the printing station on the printing production floor is identified, the three-dimensional image and at least one of the photographic images are simultaneously displayed on the display system such that the correlation of the at least one of the photographic images to the portion of the three-dimensional image corresponding to the problem area is apparent.