Patent Document ID: 7809594
Application ID: 10493255
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for dynamically displaying an actual state of tasks in a production system, comprising: a device configured to enter target information data assigned to a target state for a plurality of tasks into a memory of a computer device; at least one data acquisition facility connected to the computer device and configured to acquire actual information data of a production system; an evaluation device in the computer device configured to analyze the actual information data and to derive actual processing states and processing directions of the tasks over time in relation to the target state; and a visualizing device connected to the computer device, wherein the visualizing device is configured to display the processing states of the tasks so that the actual processing states of the tasks derived from the actual information data are dynamically displayed in relation to the target state; wherein the system is configured to display the processing states and processing directions of the tasks by respective graphical task symbols on the visualizing device in relation to a graphical target corridor that converges toward a target state symbol representing the target state on the visualizing device; wherein a task waiting to be started is represented by a task symbol in a graphical area on the visualizing device outside the target corridor at a distal end of the target corridor relative to the target state symbol; and wherein two tasks with a predicted conflict are displayed on the visualizing device by two task symbols with respective processing direction preview symbols extending in convergent directions relative to each other.