Patent ID: 8914300

Claim:
An apparatus operable in an industrial automation environment, the apparatus comprising: a memory that retains instructions that at least: alter profitability data representing a profitability of a production facility based on an alteration of cost data representing a variable cost associated with financial information and product schedules, wherein the cost data is based on a likelihood measure expressed as a probability of a potential economic gain and an optimization, based on an interdependency between a group of elements comprising an energy usage of the production facility, an energy cost incurred by the production facility, a revenue generated by the production facility, a product throughput of the production facility, a machine life cycle cost, and a machine longevity; and based on an alteration of the profitability data, project a visual instrumentation associated with a predictive visualization onto a display configured to accept a tactile user input, wherein industrial equipment associated with the production facility is adjusted to alter the profitability data based on tactile manipulation of the predictive visualization through a tactile interaction with the display; and a processor, coupled to the memory, configured to facilitate execution of the instructions retained in the memory.