JP2011248624A - Monitoring and control system and monitoring screen displaying method for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a monitoring and control system and a monitoring screen displaying method for the same that make possible not only displaying of an operation monitoring screen retrieved in a thumbnail menu screen but also searching for and displaying of related operation monitoring screens.SOLUTION: When an operator inputs a keyword regarding a desired operation monitoring screen from an input unit 102, a monitoring and control unit 100 searches screen information for an operation monitoring screen related to the keyword inputted from the input unit 102, displays on a display unit 101 at least one of the related operation monitoring screens as a first menu screen of thumbnail, the input unit 102 or the display unit 101 selects the thumbnail of the first menu screen displayed on the display unit 101, and a thumbnail-related operation monitoring screen selected according to screen development information is displayed as the menu screen of the thumbnail in an axial direction different from the direction of the array axis of the first menu screen.

Description

  The present invention relates to a monitoring control system suitable for displaying a target operation monitoring screen and a monitoring screen display method thereof.

  In the monitoring control system, a plurality of operation monitoring screens can be displayed on a single display device such as a multi-window, and operation monitoring is performed while combining different types of operation monitoring screens.

  However, the number of operation monitoring screens that can be displayed on one display device is limited, and operation monitoring is performed while switching and displaying the operation monitoring screens.

  In this way, operation monitoring is performed while switching operation monitoring screens, but sometimes it is necessary to display the same combination of operation monitoring screens again. In such a case, there are multiple operation monitoring screens. Therefore, it is necessary to search for an operation monitoring screen of the same combination, and it takes a lot of time for this review.

  As a conventional technique for solving this problem, a master window and a slave window described in [Patent Document 1] are used as a window set, a plurality of window sets are managed, and a window is displayed in a general overlap type multi-window environment. Controlling the display of a set and a general-purpose window, based on the display count of the screen displayed by the operator and the number of times the operator has operated on the displayed screen described in [Patent Document 2] There is a screen that displays four screens, that is, three screens having a high frequency and a fourth screen that is most relevant to the three screens.

  [Patent Document 3] displays a related monitoring screen list window that displays a list of reduced screens obtained by reducing a plurality of monitoring screens related to an alarm or event message in a partial area of the screen of the monitor device. Is described. [Patent Document 4] describes that one main screen and a plurality of thumbnail display screens are displayed and the main screen and one thumbnail screen are switched.

JP-A-10-124284 JP 2008-250514 A JP 2009-146208 A JP 2008-287360 A

  In the method of displaying the operation monitoring screen described in [Patent Document 1], it is necessary to display all the operation monitoring screens necessary for operation monitoring once and then group them, and group the optimal combinations. There were problems such as re-running the operation monitoring screen.

  Further, the method of displaying the operation monitoring screen with high display frequency described in [Patent Document 2] has a problem that confirmation cannot be made unless the operation monitoring screen of the optimized combination is displayed once.

  Moreover, in what displays a list of reduced screens obtained by reducing a plurality of monitoring screens related to the message described in [Patent Document 3], or displays a plurality of thumbnail display screens described in [Patent Document 4], Since a predetermined number of reduced screens are selected, there is a limit, and there is a problem that it takes time and effort to redisplay the screen to search for a target monitoring screen.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring control system capable of displaying a reduced operation monitoring screen and displaying a menu screen for searching for the target operation monitoring screen, and a monitoring screen display method thereof.

  To achieve the above object, according to the present invention, when an operator inputs a keyword related to a target operation monitoring screen by an input device, the monitoring control device performs operation monitoring related to the keyword input by the input device. The screen is searched from the screen information, the related operation monitoring screen is displayed on the display device as the first menu screen of at least one thumbnail, and the thumbnail of the first menu screen displayed on the display device is displayed on the input device or display device And the operation monitoring screen related to the selected thumbnail is displayed as a thumbnail menu screen in an axis direction different from the arrangement axis direction of the first menu screen.

  According to the present invention, the searched operation monitoring screen is displayed on the thumbnail (reduced screen) menu screen, and the other operation monitoring related to the searched operation monitoring screen is performed by moving the menu screen with the mouse cursor. Since the screen can be continuously searched, there is an effect that the target operation monitoring screen can be easily searched and displayed.

It is a block diagram of the monitoring control system which is one Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the structure of a drawing information storage part. It is a figure explaining the structure of a drawing display information storage part. It is a figure explaining the structure of a drawing development information storage part. It is a figure explaining the structure of a drawing search information storage part. It is the top view which showed the example of the menu screen of a thumbnail. It is a processing flowchart for displaying the related driving | operation monitoring screen from the menu screen of a thumbnail. It is a figure which shows the example which displayed the several driving | operation monitoring screen on the big screen. It is a figure which shows the example of an operation monitoring screen.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a monitoring control system according to the present embodiment. The supervisory control system of the present embodiment is used for process supervisory control of a wide area water and sewage treatment plant, a power plant, a factory, and the like.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the monitoring control system includes a monitoring control device 100, a CRT, an LCD, and the like, and includes a display device 101 that visually displays an image to an operator, a mouse, a keyboard, a touch panel, and the like. The input device 102 is a device for an operator to input to the monitoring control device 100.

  Here, a display device having a large screen different from the display device 101 may be installed, and a plurality of operation monitoring screens to be described later can be displayed on the large screen. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example, and each operation monitoring screen is handled in units such as windows and views. The operation monitoring screen includes a trend screen 211, a process screen, and a process alarm screen for representing numerical values of plant equipment. 212, an operation guide screen 213, and the like.

  The monitoring control apparatus 100 includes a screen management processing unit 103 to which the display device 101 and the input device 102 are connected, a screen information storage unit 104 to be connected to the screen management processing unit 103, and a screen to be connected to the screen management processing unit 103. Display information storage unit 105, screen development information storage unit 106 and screen search processing unit 107, plant information storage unit 111 and screen search information storage unit 108 connected to screen search processing unit 107, and plant equipment 110 The plant management processing unit 109 is configured. The screen search processing unit 107 is connected to the screen display information storage unit 105, the screen development information storage unit 106 and the plant management processing unit 109, and the plant management processing unit 109 is connected to the screen management processing unit 103.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the screen information storage unit 104 stores information for each item such as a screen name 401, a screen number 402, a screen type 403, and a screen page number 404 as the screen information 400. Yes. These pieces of information are prepared for all screens prepared in the monitoring control system.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the screen display information storage unit 105 includes, as the drawing display information 410, for each item such as the screen name 411 of the operation monitoring screen, the display count 412, the operation count 413, the display time 414, and the search count 415. Stores information. This information is updated and stored every time all the screens prepared in the monitoring control system are displayed or searched, and held for each user such as an operator or maintenance staff.

  In the screen development information storage unit 106, transitions such as a screen number 421, a screen type 422, and a screen page 423 are stored as screen development information 420 as shown in FIG. This information is updated and stored every time the operation monitoring screen is displayed, and held for each user.

  As shown in FIG. 5, information such as a search keyword 434, a screen number 431, a screen type 432, and a screen page 433 is stored in the screen search information storage unit 108 as screen search information 430. This information is created and stored every time the operation monitoring screen is searched, and held for each user.

  The plant management processing unit 109 inputs information from the plant equipment 110 and acquires plant information including information such as status and abnormality from the plant equipment 110. The plant management processing unit 109 registers information acquired from the plant equipment 110 in the plant information storage unit 111, while acquiring information related to the plant equipment 110 from the plant information storage unit 111.

  The screen management processing unit 103 accepts a request input by an operator such as an operator or maintenance staff operating the input device 102. If the input request is an operation monitoring screen display request, the operation monitoring screen information is acquired from the screen information storage unit 104, and the plant information related to the operation monitoring screen displayed from the plant management processing unit 109 is acquired.

  By combining the acquired plant information and the operation monitoring screen, the operation monitoring screen in the abnormal state or execution state is displayed with priority. As will be described later, information can also be used to highlight the thumbnail operation monitoring screen with a red frame indicating abnormality or a green frame indicating execution.

  The screen management processing unit 103 inputs information from the screen information storage unit 104, the screen display information storage unit 105, and the plant management processing unit 109, and displays the screen information 400 of the displayed operation monitoring screen, the updated display count 412 and the operation. The number of times 413, the display time 414, and the number of searches 415 are combined and registered as screen display information 410 in the screen display information storage unit 105. Also, the past display order of the operation monitoring screen is updated and combined with the screen information 400 and registered in the screen development information storage unit 106 as screen development information 420.

  When the operator needs the target operation monitoring screen, the following operation is performed. The screen management processing unit 103 accepts a keyword related to the operation monitoring screen input by the operator from the input device 102 and inquires the screen search processing unit 107 for the keyword.

  The screen search processing unit 107 inputs information from the screen information storage unit 104, the screen display information storage unit 105, the screen development information storage unit 106, the screen search information storage unit 108, and the plant management processing unit 109, and has received an inquiry. The operation monitoring screen related to the keyword is obtained from the screen information storage unit 104 by searching the screen information 400. The acquired screen information 400 is grouped as screen search information 430 using the search keyword 434 as an index. The grouped screen search information 430 is registered in the screen search information storage unit 108. This grouped operation monitoring screen is displayed.

  The operation monitoring screens can also be displayed in the order of priority of each operation monitoring screen. In this case, the following operation is performed.

  When the screen search processing unit 107 acquires the screen display information 410 corresponding to the screen information 400 from the screen display information storage unit 105, the screen display information 410 acquires the display count 412, the operation count 413, the display time 414, and the search count 415. To determine the priority of each operation monitoring screen.

  The operation monitoring screen displayed on the display device 101 is managed by the screen management processing unit 103. The screen management processing unit 103 acquires the screen search information 430 and the priority of each operation monitoring screen from the screen search processing unit 107. The operation monitoring screens of the acquired screen search information 430 are displayed in descending order of priority.

  The screen management processing unit 103 acquires the screen development information 420 and the priority of each operation monitoring screen from the screen search processing unit 107. From the acquired screen development information 420, an operation monitoring screen related to a combination having a high priority is determined and displayed.

  An example of the operation monitoring screen displayed on the display device 101 of the monitoring control device 100 shown in FIG. 1 is shown in FIGS. FIG. 6 shows a menu screen displaying thumbnails (reduced screens) for searching the operation monitoring screen. FIG. 9 shows an example in which thumbnails and one operation monitoring screen are displayed.

  Here, the thumbnail is an image in which an image is mainly expressed as a reduced image, and can be created by a method of reducing and displaying the original image and a method of reducing and processing the original image. If a thumbnail image is selected, an image of the original file size can be displayed.

  In this example, the operation monitoring screen 200 of the searched thumbnail is displayed in six screens in the horizontal direction. Here, the menu screen of thumbnails that can be simultaneously displayed on the operation monitoring screen varies depending on the size of the display device 101 and the size of the thumbnails. For example, when searching for operation monitoring screens having six or more thumbnails, the remaining operation monitoring screens are displayed in order by placing the mouse cursor on the left or right edge of the display device 101 and clicking, or touching the touch panel with a fingertip. Is done.

  The thumbnail operation monitoring screen 200 displayed first after the search is determined by the priority determined using the screen display information storage unit 105.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing from the thumbnail menu screen until the related operation monitoring screen is displayed.

  When the operator of the monitoring control system moves the mouse cursor to the displayed thumbnail driving monitoring screen or touches the fingertip of the touch panel and designates the driving monitoring screen on the menu screen, the input from the input device 102 The information is received by the screen management processing unit 103, and the operation monitoring screen information on the specified menu screen is searched and specified in the screen information storage unit 104.

  In step 11, the screen development information 420 is acquired from the screen development information storage unit 106 from the operation monitoring screen information on the identified menu screen, and the corresponding operation monitoring screen portion is searched from the acquired screen development information 420. The screen development information 420 of the selected operation monitoring screen is acquired from the screen development information storage unit 106, and screen information 410 corresponding to the acquired screen development information 420 is acquired from the screen display information storage unit 105 in step 12. The acquired operation monitoring screen is displayed.

  Here, the screen development is performed from the displayed operation monitoring screen to the switched operation monitoring screen when a thumbnail is selected and switched to another operation monitoring screen as described later in the state shown in FIG. This is switching information. For example, the switching information such as from the A operation monitoring screen to the B operation monitoring screen, from the A operation monitoring screen to the D operation monitoring screen, from the A operation monitoring screen to the E operation monitoring screen,... Information 420 is recorded. From this screen development information 420, a B operation monitoring screen, a D operation monitoring screen, an E operation monitoring screen,... Are displayed as thumbnails.

  The operation monitoring screens can also be displayed in the order of priority of each operation monitoring screen. In this case, the following operation is performed.

  In step 13, each operation monitoring screen of the screen development information 420 is given priority from the acquired screen information 410.

  In step 14, screen information 400 is acquired from the screen information storage unit 104 in order from the operation monitoring screen with the highest priority.

  In step 15, plant information is acquired from the plant information storage unit 111. The priority is further assigned from the plant information, or a highlighted frame such as a red frame is added if abnormal, and a green frame is added if executed.

  In step 16, an operation monitoring screen related to the left or right part is further displayed on the upper or lower part of the location where the mouse cursor is moved to the operation monitoring screen on the thumbnail menu screen or the fingertip is touched on the touch panel.

  The related operation monitoring screens displayed on the upper or lower side may be arranged in an oblique direction, and the axial direction of the display arrangement is different so as not to overlap with the menu screen of the thumbnail displayed first. Set to

  In this example, the higher the priority is set for the thumbnail displayed on the left side, the priority can be changed so that the higher the priority is for the thumbnail displayed on the right side.

  As described above, when the mouse cursor is moved to the thumbnail operation monitoring screen 201 displayed first or the fingertip is touched on the touch panel, a plurality of thumbnail operation monitoring screens 202 related to the operation monitoring screen 201 are vertically displayed. Is displayed. For example, when related operation monitoring screens of 6 screens or more are searched, when the mouse cursor is moved to the operation monitoring screen 201 or the fingertip of the touch panel is moved, the remaining operation monitoring screens are sequentially displayed.

  When the operation monitoring screen of a plurality of thumbnails displayed by moving the mouse cursor is fixedly displayed, for example, it can be performed by clicking the mouse.

  In this example, the higher the priority is set for the thumbnail displayed on the upper side, the priority can be changed so that the higher the priority is for the thumbnail displayed on the lower side.

  Furthermore, when the mouse cursor is moved and clicked on the displayed thumbnail operation monitoring screen 203 or the fingertip is touched on the touch panel, a plurality of thumbnail operation monitoring screens 204 related to the operation monitoring screen 203 are displayed in the horizontal direction. To be able to. For example, when 7 or more related operation monitoring screens are searched, when the mouse cursor is moved to the operation monitoring screen 203 and clicked or the fingertip of the touch panel is touched, the remaining operation monitoring screens are sequentially displayed. .

  In this example, the higher the priority is set for the thumbnail displayed on the left side, the priority can be changed so that the higher the priority is for the thumbnail displayed on the right side.

  In this way, an appropriate operation monitoring screen can be displayed by, for example, double-clicking and selecting one or more monitoring screens from the displayed thumbnail operation monitoring screens. The display device 101 displays a plurality of selected operation monitoring screens so that they do not overlap or allow some overlap.

  Thus, once searching and registering a plurality of selected operation monitoring screens as user information can be reused as a menu screen for the operation monitoring screen.

  Information can be expanded to another user using the screen display information storage unit 105, the screen expansion information storage unit 106, and the screen search information storage unit 108 stored for each user. That is, by copying the user information as another user information, the menu screen for the operation monitoring screen can be taken over by another user.

  According to the present embodiment, the searched operation monitoring screen is displayed on the thumbnail (reduced screen) menu screen, and the other operation related to the searched operation monitoring screen is moved by moving the cursor on the menu screen with the mouse cursor. Since the monitoring screen can be continuously searched, the target operation monitoring screen can be easily found and displayed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Monitoring and control apparatus 101 Display apparatus 102 Input apparatus 103 Screen management processing part 104 Screen information storage part 105 Screen display information storage part 106 Screen expansion information storage part 107 Screen search processing part 108 Screen search information storage part 109 Plant management processing part 110 Plant Equipment 111 Plant information storage unit

Claims (13)

  An input device for inputting a keyword related to an operation monitoring screen intended by the operator, an operation monitoring screen related to the keyword input by the input device is searched from the screen information, and the related operation monitoring screen is displayed as at least one thumbnail. A monitoring control device that performs display control on the display device as the first menu screen, and the monitoring control device expands the screen when a thumbnail of the first menu screen displayed on the display device is selected by the input device or the display device. A monitoring control system for displaying an operation monitoring screen related to the selected thumbnail according to information in an axis direction different from the arrangement axis direction of the first menu screen as a thumbnail menu screen.   2. The screen information according to claim 1, wherein the screen information is information including a screen name, a screen number, a screen type, and a screen page number of an operation monitoring screen recorded in a screen information storage unit, and is searched by a screen search processing unit. Supervisory control system.   The monitoring control according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the screen development information is information including a screen number, a screen type, and a transition of a screen page recorded in a screen development information storage unit, and is searched by a screen search processing unit. system.   The first menu screen is selected from the searched related operation monitoring screens in descending order of priority based on screen display information including the number of times of operation monitoring screen search, the number of times of operation monitoring screen display, the number of operations, and the display time. The supervisory control system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.   4. The monitoring control system according to claim 1, wherein the selection of the thumbnail is performed by moving a mouse cursor or touching a fingertip of the touch panel on the thumbnail of the menu screen.   The supervisory control system according to claim 4 or 5, wherein a priority to be displayed on the menu screen of the thumbnail is determined according to a current plant state from the plant information.   The monitoring control system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the thumbnail is highlighted according to the current plant state from the plant information.   When the operator inputs a keyword related to the target operation monitoring screen by the input device, the monitoring control device searches the screen information for the operation monitoring screen related to the keyword input by the input device, and related operation monitoring. The screen is displayed on the display device as the first menu screen of at least one thumbnail, the thumbnail of the first menu screen displayed on the display device is selected by the input device or the display device, and the selected by the screen development information A monitoring screen display method of a monitoring control system, wherein an operation monitoring screen related to a thumbnail is displayed as a thumbnail menu screen in an axis direction different from the arrangement axis direction of the first menu screen.   9. The screen information according to claim 8, wherein the screen information is information including a screen name, a screen number, a screen type, and a screen page number of an operation monitoring screen recorded in a screen information storage unit, and is searched by a screen search processing unit. Monitoring screen display method of the monitoring control system.   The monitoring control according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the screen development information is information including a screen number, a screen type, and a transition of a screen page recorded in the screen development information storage unit, and is searched by the screen search processing unit. System monitoring screen display method.   The first menu screen is selected from the searched related operation monitoring screens in descending order of priority based on screen display information including the number of times of operation monitoring screen search, the number of times of operation monitoring screen display, the number of operations, and the display time. A monitoring screen display method for a monitoring control system according to any one of claims 8 to 10.   The monitoring screen of the monitoring control system according to any one of claims 8 to 10, wherein the monitoring screen is reused as a menu screen for an operation monitoring screen by searching once and registering a plurality of selected operation monitoring screens as user information. Display method.   The monitoring screen display method of the monitoring control system according to claim 12, wherein the menu screen for the operation monitoring screen is transferred to another user by copying the user information as other user information.

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