Patent ID: 8321806

Claim:
A system for displaying operational process control data, the system comprising: a human-machine interface comprising a geographic representation of an area of interest, a graphical representation of a monitored process, and one or more graphical status indicators, each being associated with a component of the monitored process, wherein the status indicators are displayed at locations within the geographic representation corresponding to physical locations at which the corresponding components of the monitored process operate, and are responsive to operational process control data generated by the monitored process, wherein the graphical status indicators comprise a plurality of similarly-shaped icon segments, each icon segment being uniquely associated with and responsive to a different element of operational process control data, wherein the different elements are received from different sources and displayed as parts of a single graphical status indicator; and a server for configuring the graphical representation of the monitored process, the graphical status indicators, and the association between the graphical status indicators and the respective components of the monitored process, wherein configuring the graphical status indicators comprises: creating at least one of the graphical status indicators by adding icon segments to an indicator template and arranging the added segments to resemble a physical arrangement of the component associated with the indicator, and defining, for each added segment, a plurality of visual states, each state alternatively activatable by the satisfaction of a configurable rule associated with the state, the rule comprising an evaluation of the operational process control data element associated with the respective segment.