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Monitoring system for an industrial plant
Assignee: Siemens AG
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Filing: 1997-05-02
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Granted: 1999-01-26
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Expires: 2017-05-02
Abstract
Abstract A monitoring system for an industrial plant, in particular for a power station plant, has a number of plant parts which can be represented as information elements on a display unit. For the purposes of information compression, filtering and diagnosing faults in good time, the information elements can be displayed in a positioned manner by using process data that are relevant for a plant state in such a way that the distance between two information elements in each case represents the degree of their contextual similarity.
Inventors
- 👤 Hans-Gerd Mederer
- 👤 Thorsten Fuhring
- 👤 Konstantin Jacoby
- 👤 Jiri Panyr
- 👤 Rainer Michelis
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 14:22
CPC Classifications
G; G05; G05D; G05D29/00; G05B; G05B23/00; G05B23/02; G05B23/0205; G05B23/0259; G05B23/0267; G05B23/0272; F; F01; F01K; F01K13/00; F01K13/02; H; H02; H02J; H02J13/00; H02J13/10; H02J13/12; Y; Y02; Y02E; Y02E60/00; Y04; Y04S; Y04S10/00; Y04S10/30; Y04S10/40; Y04S10/50; Y04S10/52
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
56 words
A monitoring system for an industrial plant having a number of plant parts, comprising: a display unit for displaying a number of parts of an industrial plant as information elements positioned by using process data relevant for a plant state, each two information elements spaced apart by a distance representing a degree of their contextual similarity.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
56 words
A monitoring system for an industrial plant having a number of plant parts, comprising: a display unit for displaying a number of parts of an industrial plant as information elements positioned by using process data relevant for a plant state, each two information elements spaced apart by a distance representing a degree of their contextual similarity.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
51 words
The monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein said display unit displays a multiplicity of features completely characterizing the industrial plant and the parts of the plant in terms of their content as information elements positioned with a distance between each two information elements representing a degree of their contextual equivalence.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
60 words
The monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein said display unit displays the information elements positioned in relation to one another with a distance between an information element representing a feature and an information element representing a part of the plant in each case being consistent with a degree of association of the feature with the part of the plant.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
26 words
The monitoring system according to claim 1, including a filter module for selecting process data, parameters, parts of the plant or features using a prescribable criterion.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
21 words
The monitoring system according to claim 1, including a data memory for plant-state-characterizing configurations of the information elements in state complexes.
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