JP4710814B2 - Operation reception device and operation reception method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an operation reception device and an operation reception method for receiving an operation on a plant object based on an operation on a display on a screen.

For monitoring and operation during plant operation, creation of a form, or analysis of a plant, work for assigning tags (objects) to a table on the screen is required. FIG. 4 shows a screen display example for the task of assigning tags. The tags are displayed in a tree hierarchy according to the equipment hierarchy, and work can be performed in the following procedure.
(1) Expand the tree hierarchy to find a necessary tag, and assign the tag by dragging and dropping it on the assignment destination screen. In the example of Fig. 4, expand "Root"->"TEST"->"F013PID01"->"PV" and drag and drop the necessary tags to the table or graph (for example, trend graph) that is the allocation destination. Assign.
(2) A tag is searched for by specifying a condition such as a tag name, and the tag extracted by the search is dragged and dropped to be allocated to an allocation destination. In the example of FIG. 4, the corresponding tag is extracted by specifying the condition [F01 *] as the tag name.

The functions of software for assigning such tags will be described below.
(1) The user can tier and register tags existing in the plant. The registered tag is stored in the tag hierarchy database.
(2) Tags stored in the tag hierarchy database are displayed in a tree hierarchy. As described above, the necessary tags can be found by expanding the tree, and can be searched and extracted by specifying a tag name or the like.
(3) As described above, when a required tag is dragged and dropped, the tag name of the tag is assigned on the screen.
(4) Using the tag name assigned on the screen as a key, the corresponding tab object is searched and extracted from the tag hierarchy database. As a result, the tag name is converted into a tag object, and tag allocation is completed.
JP 2006-155266 A

  Generally, in software products, it is required that a desired work can be easily executed by a screen operation. However, in the above tag assignment work, tags must be assigned one by one, and in the following cases, a troublesome operation requiring many procedures may be forced.

  (1) For example, in order to report the status of plant operation, there is a case where it is desired to obtain an hourly deadline value of a tag that serves as an index indicating the status of plant operation. However, in the normal equipment hierarchy, the deadline value for each hour is defined as a tag deep in the tree hierarchy, and as shown in FIG. 5 (a), the tree hierarchy display is expanded to a deep position. , You need to perform operations on individual tags. In particular, when assigning a large number of tags, it is necessary to repeat such a complicated operation many times, and the tag extraction operation becomes troublesome.

  (2) In addition, the trend graphs of time series data of different tags may be overlapped to compare the data. Usually, the compared tags have the same meaning. For example, when comparing a tag currently being monitored with a past trend in good driving, these are tags of the same type, although the times are different. In addition, when the trends of a plurality of tags are compared between the operation performed in unit A and the operation performed in unit B, these tags should have the same positioning in each unit. In such a case, as shown in FIG. 5B, it is necessary to repeat the same operation a plurality of times even though the tags have the same meaning. In addition, when the tag name of the tag having the same meaning is forgotten, work different from the original work such as reexamining the structure of the equipment hierarchy occurs.

  The objective of this invention is providing the operation reception apparatus and operation reception method which can operate the object of a plant easily.

The operation accepting device of the present invention is an operation accepting device that accepts an operation on an object of a plant based on an operation on a tree hierarchy display on a screen, a viewpoint accepting unit that accepts designation of a viewpoint by a user, and designation by the viewpoint accepting unit Based on the received viewpoint as a search key, a search means for searching for the object, and a tree hierarchy display of the object according to the viewpoint on the screen based on a search result of the search means, and an allocation area and operation for the object display means for displaying the results, characterized in that and an operation acceptance means for accepting an operation on said object by said object Ri which is a tree hierarchy view by the said display means the user moves to the allocation region .
According to this operation accepting apparatus, since a tree hierarchy display according to the viewpoint specified by the user is performed, the object to be operated can be pulled out to a shallow position in the hierarchy, and the object can be easily operated. it can.

As specified in the User chromatography The, a particular object group, and class registration means for registering a class associated with the higher-hierarchy object, according to the designation of the class object registered in the class registering unit and extraction means for extracting a group, the display means displays the class specified on the screen, the operation reception means an operation of a user on the classes listed Ri by said display means, it is extracted it may be only with received as bulk operations on the object group was.
According to this operation reception device, an object group can be collectively operated in units of classes, so that objects can be easily operated.

  Filtering condition acceptance means for accepting specification of a filtering condition by a user, and filtering means for filtering an object displayed by the display means in accordance with the filtering condition accepted for specification by the filtering condition acceptance means.

The operation accepting method of the present invention includes a step of accepting a designation of a viewpoint by a user in an operation accepting method of accepting an operation on an object of a plant based on an operation on a tree hierarchy display on a screen, and a search key for the viewpoint that has accepted the designation. As a step of searching for the object, and based on a search result of the step of searching, displaying a tree hierarchy of the object by the viewpoint on the screen and displaying an allocation area and an operation result for the object ; A step of accepting an operation on the object by a user moving the object displayed in the tree hierarchy to the allocation area .
According to this operation reception method, the tree hierarchy display according to the viewpoint designated by the user is performed, so that the object to be operated can be pulled out to a shallow position in the hierarchy, and the object can be easily operated. it can.

As specified in the User chromatography The, a particular object group, and registering as a class associated with the higher-hierarchy object, according to the designation of the class, a group of objects that have been registered in said registering step There may be provided a step of extracting, a step of displaying the designated class on the screen, and a step of accepting a user operation on the displayed class as a collective operation on the extracted object group.
According to this operation reception method, the object group can be collectively operated in units of classes, so that the objects can be easily operated.

  According to the operation accepting apparatus of the present invention, the tree hierarchy display according to the viewpoint designated by the user is performed, so that the object to be operated can be drawn to a shallow position in the hierarchy, and the object is easily operated. be able to.

  According to the operation accepting apparatus of the present invention, an object group can be collectively operated in units of classes, so that objects can be easily operated.

  According to the operation reception method of the present invention, tree hierarchy display according to the viewpoint designated by the user is performed, so that the object to be operated can be drawn to a shallow position in the hierarchy, and the object is easily operated. be able to.

  According to the operation accepting method of the present invention, an object group can be collectively operated in units of classes, so that objects can be easily operated.

  Hereinafter, with reference to FIGS. 1-3, one Embodiment of the operation reception apparatus by this invention is described.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the operation reception device of this embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the operation reception device 1 of the present embodiment includes a viewpoint reception unit 11 that receives designation of a viewpoint by a user, and a tag (object) using the viewpoint received by the viewpoint reception unit 11 as a search key. A search means 12 for searching, a class registration means 13 for registering a specific tag group as a class associated with an object in a higher hierarchy in accordance with a user designation, and a class registration means in accordance with the class designation Based on the search result of the search means 12 and the extraction means 14 for extracting the tag group registered in 13, the tree hierarchy display of the tag from the viewpoint is displayed on the screen, and the designated class is displayed on the screen Display means 15 for filtering, filtering condition accepting means 16 for accepting specification of filtering conditions by the user, and filtering condition accepting According to a filtering condition received the designation in stage 16, constituting the filtering means 17 for filtering the tags displayed by the display unit 15, an operation accepting unit 18 accepts an operation of a user on the display by the display unit 15, a.

  The user can hierarchically register tags existing in the plant, and the registered tags are stored in the tag hierarchy database 21. In the tag hierarchy database 21, objects such as registered tags and units are stored together with their positions on the equipment hierarchy.

  In addition, the operation accepting apparatus 1 of the present embodiment has a function of displaying an object in a tree hierarchy according to a hierarchical structure in accordance with a viewpoint designated by the user. The display viewpoint database 22 stores viewpoints designated by the user.

  Furthermore, in the operation reception device 1 of this embodiment, the class registration unit 13 allows the user to register an arbitrary class. A class is a concept of bundling a plurality of tags in association with a common upper object. Each class registered by the user is defined by the higher-order object and a tag group associated therewith and stored in the class database 23.

  As will be described later, the operation reception device 1 has a function of receiving a batch operation for tags belonging to a class.

  Next, operation | movement of the operation reception apparatus 1 of this embodiment is demonstrated.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a display screen example of a tree hierarchy display according to a display viewpoint designated by the user. FIG. 2 exemplifies a display in a case where an hourly deadline value of a tag that serves as an index indicating the state of plant operation is acquired.

  The display window 30 shown in FIG. 2 is provided with a display viewpoint input field 31 as the viewpoint receiving means 11, and the user selects an arbitrary display viewpoint from the display viewpoints stored in the display viewpoint database 22. can do. In the example of FIG. 2, “Deadline” is selected as the display viewpoint.

  When the display viewpoint is input, the search unit 12 searches for a tag stored in the tag hierarchy database 21 using the input display viewpoint as a search key. The search means 12 extracts a tag with the display viewpoint.

  In addition, the window 30 is provided with a display filter input field 32 for narrowing display conditions, and the user can select any filtering condition. The input field 32 functions as the filtering condition receiving unit 16. In the example of FIG. 2, the filtering condition by the deadline type is specified, and the deadline value for every hour is selected as the filtering condition.

  When the filtering condition is designated, the filtering means 17 further narrows down the tags extracted by the search means 12 according to the designated filtering condition.

  Next, the display unit 15 presents the tags narrowed down by the filtering unit 17 in the area 33 of the window 30 as a tree hierarchy display according to the specified display viewpoint. In the tree hierarchy display, only a list of necessary tags is displayed. The example of FIG. 2 shows a state in which “time tightening” is expanded, and corresponding tags (“pump 1. input flow rate”, “pump 2. input flow rate”, “distillation tower A. input flow rate” and “distillation” are shown. Tower B. Input flow rate ") is displayed. When these tag icons are dragged and dropped and moved to a predetermined position in the window 40, the operation accepting means 18 executes tag assignment processing so as to match the display in the display window 40.

  As described above, the tree hierarchy can be displayed from various viewpoints in the present embodiment, whereas the tree hierarchy based on one viewpoint (equipment hierarchy) can be conventionally displayed. For this reason, since a necessary tag group can be positioned at a shallow position in the hierarchy by designating the display viewpoint, these tags can be easily extracted and operated. In addition, since only necessary tags can be displayed by specifying the filtering condition, access to the tags becomes easy.

  Next, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen of a tree hierarchy display by class.

  When a plurality of process value trend graphs are superimposed and displayed, it is necessary to assign a plurality of tags having the same meaning of different objects. In this embodiment, a class that associates a plurality of tags with a higher-level object is registered in advance, and an operation in units of classes is possible.

  The example of FIG. 3 shows a display screen when a class that associates an input flow rate, an output flow rate, an upper temperature tag, and a lower temperature tag of an object (unit) indicating a “distillation column” with a tag is designated. Yes.

  When the class is designated from the classes stored in the class database 23 by a predetermined operation by the user, the extracting unit 14 extracts the tag defined by the class from the tag hierarchy database 21.

  The display means 15 displays the tags extracted by the extraction means 14 in a tree hierarchy.

  In the display screen of FIG. 3, “equipment hierarchy” is selected as the display viewpoint by the input field 51 of the display window 50. However, since the tag to be displayed is limited to the process value in the display filter input field 52, only the process value is expanded and displayed.

  FIG. 3 shows a state in which “distillation tower A” is expanded and displayed, and tags indicating process values of input flow rate, output flow rate, upper stage temperature, and lower stage temperature positioned below “distillation tower A” are displayed. ing.

  From this display state, when the “distillation tower A” icon in the area 53 is dragged and dropped and moved to the area 61 in the window 60, the process values defined by the class are collectively assigned to the area 61. . The operation accepting unit 18 executes tag assignment processing so as to match the display of the area 61. In the area 62 of the window 60, the time series data of the process values assigned by the area 61 is displayed as a trend graph.

  Similarly, when the “distillation column B” icon in the region 53 is dragged and dropped and moved to the region 61 in the window 60, the input flow rate, the output flow rate, the upper stage temperature, Each process value of the lower temperature is assigned to the area 61 at a time, and the operation receiving means 18 executes tag assignment processing so as to match the display of the area 61. In the area 62 of the window 60, the time series data of the process values assigned by the area 61 is displayed as a trend graph.

  As described above, regardless of whether or not the upper tag is expanded and displayed, the assignment to the plurality of tags defined by the class can be executed by one operation on the upper object. In the example of FIG. 3, by simply dragging and dropping the “distillation column A” and “distillation column B” icons, tags having the same meaning defined as classes can be assigned to the window 61. The process values of the input flow rate, output flow rate, upper stage temperature and lower stage temperature can be compared with a simple operation.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the tag group can be collectively operated in units of classes by introducing the concept of a class for collecting tags. For this reason, related tags can be assigned together. In addition, the introduction of classes allows users to perform assignments and other tasks on a class-by-class basis without having to be aware of individual tags, so there is no need to know details such as tag names, so even those who do not have specialized knowledge can perform operations. Is possible.

  As described above, according to the operation reception device and the operation reception method of the present invention, tree hierarchy display according to the viewpoint specified by the user is performed, so that the tag (object) to be operated is positioned at a shallow position in the hierarchy. The tag can be easily manipulated. Moreover, since the display according to the class designated by the user is performed, the tag to be operated can be extracted and displayed, and the tag can be easily operated. Furthermore, when narrowing down the display target by filtering conditions, it is possible to make it easier to access the necessary tags.

  The scope of application of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. The present invention can be widely applied to an operation reception device and an operation reception method for receiving an operation on a plant object based on an operation on a display on a screen.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the operation reception apparatus of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the example of a display screen of the tree hierarchy display according to the display viewpoint designated by the user. The figure which shows the example of a display screen of the tree hierarchy display by a class. The figure which shows the example of the conventional screen display for the operation | work which allocates a tag. The figure which shows the conventional operation procedure with respect to a tag.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Operation reception apparatus 11 Viewpoint reception means 12 Search means 13 Class registration means 14 Extraction means 15 Display means 16 Filtering condition reception means 17 Filtering means 18 Operation reception means

Claims (5)

In the operation accepting device that accepts operations on plant objects based on operations on the tree hierarchy display on the screen,
Viewpoint accepting means for accepting designation of the viewpoint by the user;
Search means for searching for the object using the viewpoint received as a search key by the viewpoint receiving means;
Display means for displaying a tree hierarchy of the object according to the viewpoint on the screen based on the search result of the search means and displaying an allocation area and an operation result for the object ;
And operation accepting means for accepting an operation on said object by said object tree hierarchy view Ri by the said display means the user moves to the allocation region,
An operation receiving apparatus comprising: As specified in the User chromatography The, a particular object group, and class registration means for registering a class associated with the higher-hierarchy object,
Depending on the specification of the class, and an extraction means for extracting a group of objects that are registered in the class registering unit,
The display means displays the class specified on the screen,
The operation acceptance unit operation reception apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that Fit receiving as bulk operations on the object group the operation of the user, which is extracted with respect to the classes listed Ri by said display means. Filtering condition accepting means for accepting user-specified filtering conditions;
Filtering means for filtering objects displayed by the display means according to the filtering conditions received by the filtering condition receiving means;
Operation reception device according to any one of claims 1-2, characterized in that it comprises a. In the operation acceptance method for accepting operations on plant objects based on operations on the tree hierarchy display on the screen,
A step of accepting specification of a viewpoint by a user;
Searching for the object using the viewpoint that received the designation as a search key;
Based on the search result of the searching step, displaying a tree hierarchy of the object from the viewpoint on the screen and displaying an allocation area and an operation result for the object ;
A step of accepting an operation on the object by a user moving the object displayed in the tree hierarchy to the allocation area ;
An operation reception method comprising: As specified in the User chromatography The, a particular object group, and registering as a class associated with the higher-hierarchy object,
Extracting the object group registered in the registering step according to the designation of the class;
Displaying the specified class on the screen;
Receiving a user operation on the displayed class as a collective operation on the extracted object group;
The operation receiving method according to claim 4, further comprising :