JP2011107756A - Creation tool for monitor control screen data - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a creation tool for monitoring control screen data which makes work for allocating signal points to graphic components more efficient, in creating monitor control screen data. <P>SOLUTION: By a unit 4 for analyzing a signal point in a control program, a relation between signal points is extracted from a control program 6 for monitoring and controlling a plant. Information on the extracted relation between signal points is stored in a signal point relation database 8, in advance; on the basis of a signal point retrieval request from a screen data creation editor 1 operated by a worker, a selection signal point candidate retrieval unit 3 retrieves a signal line candidate to be allocated to a graphic component from the signal point relation database 8; and when displaying it by a selection signal point list display unit 2, a signal point retrieval request from the screen data creation editor 1 includes information on a signal point allocated immediately prior thereto. The selection signal point candidate retrieval unit 3 extracts a list of signal points related to the signal point allocated, immediately prior to a signal point, as a candidate. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a monitoring control screen data creation tool for creating monitoring control screen data for monitoring and controlling a monitored device such as a plant.

Conventionally, when creating monitor control screen data, screen data is classified from the list of signal points according to the signal type of analog data input / output and digital data input / output and the classification of each equipment to which each signal point belongs. An operator searches for necessary signal points and assigns them to graphic parts in the screen data.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 describes a method of listing signal points by classification focusing on the structure of signal points, such as an input / output point list for each device and an input / output point list for each functional module.

JP-A-10-198419 (pages 3-5, FIG. 1)

  In the conventional technology, if the target monitoring control target is a large-scale plant, the signal points prepared in the plant also become large, and the signal points to be assigned to the graphic parts are searched when creating the monitoring control screen data. However, there is a problem that a great deal of labor is required.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and to obtain a monitoring control screen data creation tool for improving the efficiency of assigning signal points to graphic parts when creating monitoring control screen data. It is an object.

The monitoring control screen data creation tool according to the present invention is a monitoring control screen data creation tool for creating monitoring control screen data for monitoring and controlling a monitored device.
A signal point relationship extraction unit for extracting a relationship between signal points from a control program for monitoring and controlling the monitored device;
A signal point relationship information database storing relationship information between signal points extracted by the signal point relationship extraction unit;
A screen data creation editor that creates a monitor control screen data by assigning signal points to graphic parts that make up the monitor control screen,
Based on the signal point search request from this screen data creation editor, a signal point candidate search unit for searching for signal point candidates to be assigned to graphic parts from the signal point relation information database,
A signal point candidate display unit that displays the signal point candidates searched by the signal point candidate search unit,
The signal point search request from the screen data creation editor includes information on the signal point assigned immediately before, and the signal point candidate searched by the signal point candidate search unit is related to the signal point assigned immediately before. It is a signal point.

As described above, the present invention is a monitoring control screen data creation tool for creating monitoring control screen data for monitoring and controlling a monitored device.
A signal point relationship extraction unit for extracting a relationship between signal points from a control program for monitoring and controlling the monitored device;
A signal point relationship information database storing relationship information between signal points extracted by the signal point relationship extraction unit;
A screen data creation editor that creates a monitor control screen data by assigning signal points to graphic parts that make up the monitor control screen,
Based on the signal point search request from this screen data creation editor, a signal point candidate search unit for searching for signal point candidates to be assigned to graphic parts from the signal point relation information database,
A signal point candidate display unit that displays the signal point candidates searched by the signal point candidate search unit,
The signal point search request from the screen data creation editor includes information on the signal point assigned immediately before, and the signal point candidate searched by the signal point candidate search unit is related to the signal point assigned immediately before. Since it is a signal point, the work of assigning signal points to graphic parts can be made efficient.

It is the schematic which shows the monitoring control screen data creation tool by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the monitoring control screen data creation tool by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the monitoring control screen data creation tool by Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the monitoring control screen data creation tool by Embodiment 3 of this invention.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a monitoring control screen data creation tool according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, a supervisory control screen data creation editor 1 (screen data creation editor) provides various functions for supervisory control screen data creation to the supervisory control screen data creator, and signals to the graphic components constituting the supervisory control screen. Includes the task of assigning points. The selection signal point list display unit 2 (signal point candidate display unit) displays a list of candidate lists of selection signal points (signal points assigned to graphic parts). In response to a request from an operator who creates monitoring control screen data, the monitoring control screen data creation editor 1 requests the selection signal point list display unit 2 to display a selection list of selection signal points.
The selection signal point list display unit 2 that has received a request to display a selection signal point candidate list causes the selection signal point candidate search unit 3 to search the candidate list of selection signal points, and the result is a supervisory control screen data creation editor. 1 is displayed.
The selected signal point candidate search unit 3 (signal point candidate search unit) refers to the signal point database 7 and the signal point relationship database 8 (signal point relationship information database) in response to a request from the selected signal point list display unit 2. Then, the selection signal candidate list is searched.

  The signal point database 7 is a database that stores a list of signal points prepared in advance for a plant for which monitoring control screen data is to be created. The signal point relationship database 8 stores relationship information between signal points. The signal point analysis unit 4 in the control program (signal point relationship extraction unit) analyzes the control program 6 that is a program of the controller that controls the plant, and from the signal point information in the control program 6, the signal point interval Extract the relationship. The signal point relationship data management unit 5 stores the signal point relationship information extracted by the control program signal point analysis unit 4 in the signal point relationship database 8.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a monitoring control screen data creation tool according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
2, 1 to 8 are the same as those in FIG. The control program signal point analysis unit 4 includes a control program use signal point list creation unit 41 and a signal point connection information extraction unit 42. The signal point relationship database 8 includes signal point connection relationship data 81.
The signal point database 7 associates signal point numbers, device names, engineering units, upper limit values, and lower limit values.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to FIG.
First, creation of the signal point relation database 8 will be described. It is assumed that the signal point database 7 is created in advance.
The control program 6 is analyzed by the signal analyzing unit 4 in the control program shown in FIG. The analysis of the control program 6 is performed by first extracting the signal points used by the control program and using the list data of the signal point information stored in the signal point database 7 as a control program use signal point list creation unit. Perform at 41. Next, the signal point connection information extracting unit 42 analyzes the input / output relationship of the control program 6 to obtain connection relationship information between signal points used for each control program.
The connection relationship information between signal points extracted by the control signal information signal analysis unit 4 is sent to the signal point relationship data management unit 5. The signal point relationship data management unit 5 summarizes connection relationship information between signal points, and stores them as signal point connection relationship data 81 in the signal point relationship database 8.

Next, an operation of assigning signal points to graphic parts constituting the monitoring control screen will be described.
An operator who creates monitoring control screen data uses the monitoring control screen data creation editor 1 to create monitoring control screen data. When the operator wants to assign signal points to the graphic parts on the monitoring control screen, the operator calls the signal point list display function from the monitoring control screen data creation editor 1.
This signal point list display function call request from the operator is transmitted from the supervisory control screen data creation editor 1 to the selected signal point list display unit 2.
The selection signal point list display unit 2 is already assigned to the signal point selected by the operator last time (the signal point assigned to the graphic component last time) and the graphic component selected on the supervisory control screen data creation editor 1. Is transmitted to the selected signal point candidate search unit 3.

The selected signal point candidate search unit 3 searches and evaluates the signal point connection relation data 81 in the signal point relation database 8 and the signal point list data in the signal point database 7, and transmits it from the selection signal point list display unit 2. The signal point list having a large relationship between the signal points previously selected by the operator and the signal points already assigned to the graphic parts selected on the supervisory control screen data creation editor 1 is extracted. This is a selection signal point candidate list.
The selection signal point candidate list extracted by the selection signal point candidate search unit 3 is transmitted to the selection signal point list display unit 2, and the selection signal point list display unit 2 inputs the signal point list onto the monitoring control screen data creation editor 1. Is displayed.
In other words, according to the present invention, the operator who creates the monitoring control screen data searches the list of signal points having a large relevance to the signal point selected immediately before, so that the operator next assigns the graphic part. A list of signal points that are likely to be selected is displayed.

  According to the first embodiment, by utilizing the signal point connection relation data 81, selection signal point candidates to be displayed in the signal point list display can be narrowed down, and an operator who creates the monitoring control screen data Thus, it is possible to improve the efficiency of the work of selecting the target signal point.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a monitoring control screen data creation tool according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
In FIG. 3, 1-8, 41, 42, 81 are the same as those in FIG. In FIG. 3, the inter-program relation information extracting unit 43 for extracting the relevance between the programs of the control program is provided in the signal point analysis unit 4 in the control program. Further, the inter-program relation data 82 which is relation information between control programs is stored in the inter-signal point relation database 8.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the second embodiment is based on the relationship between the control program programs, as shown in FIG. 3, in contrast to the selection signal point candidate narrowing function displayed in the signal point list display realized in the first embodiment. A function to extract the relationship information is added.

The signal point analysis unit 4 in the control program according to the second embodiment extracts the relevance that can be found between the control programs # 1 to #N of the control program 6, and determines the relevance to each control program 6 from the relevance. The relation information between the included signal points is extracted.
The extraction of the relationship between the control programs by the inter-program relationship information extracting unit 43 is that the name of the control program is named according to a predetermined rule. Therefore, the relationship between the control programs is determined based on the similarity of the control program names. Take advantage of being able to find out.
The inter-program relationship information extracted by the inter-program relationship information extraction unit 43 is stored as inter-program relationship data 82 in the inter-signal point relationship database 8 by the inter-signal point relationship data management unit 5.
That is, in the second embodiment, an inter-program relationship information extraction unit 43 is provided, and the control programs belonging to the same group are collected from the control program naming rules. Then, the relation information between the signal points is extracted based on the relation between the signal points used in the control program of the same group. This is executed by the selection signal point candidate search unit 3. The inter-program relationship data 82 in the inter-signal point relationship database 8 is also added to the target of searching and evaluating the signal point list data.
This makes it possible to supplement the relationship between signal points that are insufficient in the first embodiment, and signal points that are out of the signal point list display of the first embodiment are also displayed in the signal point list. To make it easier to find signal points.

According to the second embodiment, the relationship between signal points that is insufficient in the first embodiment can be complemented by adding the inter-program relationship data 82 to the target of the signal point list data search and evaluation. Thus, even signal points that are out of the signal point list display of the first embodiment can be displayed in the signal point list.
For this reason, even if the operator who creates the monitoring control screen data cannot find the signal point list in the first embodiment, the frequency at which the target signal point is found in the signal point list in the second embodiment. This increases the efficiency of the signal point selection operation.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a monitoring control screen data creation tool according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
4, 1 to 8 are the same as those in FIG. The signal point selection information management unit 9 (signal point relationship adding unit) adds signal point information newly assigned to the graphic part by the operator to the signal point connection relationship data 81 of the signal point relationship database 8. I am doing so. That is, the relationship between the signal point assigned immediately before and the signal point newly assigned to the graphic component is added to the inter-signal point connection relationship data 81.

Next, the operation of the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
In the third embodiment, the signal point connection relation data 81 indicates the relation between the signal point assigned immediately before and the signal point newly assigned to the graphic part by the operator in the signal point connection relation data 81. A signal point selection information management unit 9 to be added is provided.
The signal point selection information management unit 9 acquires from the selection signal point list display unit 2 signal point selection information (information on signal points assigned to graphic parts by the worker) of the worker who creates the monitoring control screen data, The acquired signal point selection information is registered as additional signal point connection relationship data in the signal point connection relationship data 81 of the signal point relationship database 8.
When allocating signal points for the same graphic component, it can be determined that this additional signal point connection relationship data has a large relationship between the two selected signal points.
Also, in the case of selecting signal points that are continuous in time, it is determined that the relationship between two consecutive signal points is large, and the signal point data relationship database 8 is updated as additional signal point connection relationship data. I do.

  According to the third embodiment, by updating the signal point relation database 8 with the additional signal point connection relation data, the signal point list display more in consideration of the work procedure of the supervisory control screen data creation worker can be performed. This makes it possible to improve work efficiency.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Monitoring control screen data creation editor 2 Selection signal point list display part 3 Selection signal point candidate search part 4 Signal point analysis part 5 in a control program Signal point relation data management part 6 Control program 7 Signal point database 8 Signal point relation database 9 Signal Point Selection Information Management Unit 41 Control Program Use Signal Point List Creation Unit 42 Signal Point Connection Information Extraction Unit 43 Program Relationship Information Extraction Unit 81 Signal Point Connection Relationship Data 82 Program Relationship Data

Claims (3)

A monitoring control screen data creation tool for creating monitoring control screen data for monitoring and controlling a monitored device,
A signal point relationship extraction unit for extracting a relationship between signal points from a control program for monitoring and controlling the monitored device;
A signal point relationship information database storing relationship information between signal points extracted by the signal point relationship extraction unit;
A screen data creation editor for creating the monitoring control screen data and requesting a search for the signal points to be assigned, by assigning the signal points to the graphic parts constituting the monitoring control screen;
Based on the signal point search request from the screen data creation editor, a signal point candidate search unit for searching for signal point candidates to be assigned to the graphic parts from the signal point relationship information database,
A signal point candidate display unit that displays the signal point candidates searched by the signal point candidate search unit,
The signal point search request from the screen data creation editor includes information on the signal point assigned immediately before, and the signal point candidate searched by the signal point candidate search unit includes the signal assigned immediately before. A monitoring control screen data creation tool characterized by being a signal point related to a point. The signal point relationship extraction unit extracts the relationship between the control programs, and the signal point relationship information database stores the relationship information between the control programs extracted by the signal point relationship extraction unit. And
The supervisory control according to claim 1, wherein the signal point candidate search unit searches for the signal point candidates using the relationship information between the control programs stored in the signal point relationship information database. Screen data creation tool.   2. A signal point relationship adding unit for adding a relationship between a signal point assigned immediately before and a signal point newly assigned to a graphic part to the signal point relationship information database. Or the monitoring control screen data creation tool according to claim 2.

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