Patent ID: 8612280

Claim:
A method of monitoring workflow performance comprising: receiving, via a user interface, a process parameter selection for a job in a production process; classifying, by a controller, based on the process parameter selection, the job into a type category, wherein the job type category is indicative of an output that results from processing the job; selecting, by the controller, a workflow that corresponds to the job type category; presenting an operator with a plurality of process options; receiving, from the operator, a process option selection; modifying the workflow to include the process option selection; determining whether the workflow, after modification, corresponds to a different job type category, and if so, reclassifying the job into the different job type category so that the job type category to which the identified performance parameters correspond to the different job type category; accessing, by the controller, a knowledge base to identify a plurality of performance indicators that are unique to the different job type category, wherein each performance indicator represents a performance-related metric associated with processing the job; implementing the workflow via at least one production process resource; and displaying a plurality of process parameters corresponding to the resource, wherein at least a portion of the displayed process parameters include the plurality of performance indicators.