JPH07168858A - Plant monitoring and operating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately and easily process the faults of plant equipments. CONSTITUTION:A plant monitoring and operating device shows a flow sheet of a monitoring subject plant on a display device 2 in a simple graphic and shows the occurrence of faults at the symbol display parts of each corresponding equipment through a fault occurrence display control part if some of plant equipments have faults. Meanwhile a fault processing priority deciding part 11 decides the fault processing priority among faulty equipments, and a window display control, part 12 displays various information on the faulty equipments on each other according to the priority. Therefore an operator can perform the fault processings at a time even to plural faulty equipments based on the window displays of the part 12. Thus the faults of equipments can be processed according to the priority of them.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a plant monitoring operation device for operating a monitored plant by a display screen of a display device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a system diagram of a monitored plant is displayed on a display device in a simple graphic form, and the symbol display portion of each device in the system diagram displayed in the simple graphic form is pointed to by a pointing device, so that various devices related to the device are monitored. Plant monitoring and operation devices that display information in windows have become widely used.
By improving the functions of the supervisory control device and adopting a sophisticated graphical user interface, advanced supervisory operations have become possible.

[0003]

However, with the improvement of the function of the plant monitoring operation device, the monitoring operation information increases, the monitoring operation screen becomes sophisticated and complicated, and the burden on the operator also increases. There was a problem that tended to.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and even when displaying an advanced and complicated monitoring operation screen, when some equipment of the monitored plant has an abnormality, the abnormality processing is performed. By displaying various pieces of information on the equipment to be displayed in a window in order of priority, the operator performs abnormal processing in the order of the displayed equipment so that abnormal processing can be performed in an appropriate procedure. It is an object of the present invention to provide a plant monitoring operation device that can reduce the burden.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a system diagram of a monitored plant is displayed on a display device in a simple graphic form, and a symbol display portion of each device of the system diagram displayed in the simple graphic form is displayed by a pointing device. By pointing, in the plant monitoring operation device that displays various information about the relevant equipment in a window,
Anomaly display control unit that displays anomaly occurrences on the symbol display unit that corresponds to the anomaly generators in the monitored plant, and when there are multiple anomaly generators, anomaly processing that determines the priority order of anomaly processing between the anomaly generators A priority determination unit and a window display control unit that displays a window on the simplified graphic display screen of the display device in the order of the priority determined by the abnormality processing priority determination unit, displaying various information for each abnormality-causing device in a window. It is a thing.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the plant monitoring operation device according to the first aspect, the window display corresponding to the device for which the abnormality processing has been completed is separated from the various information for each of the abnormality generating devices displayed in the window. It is provided with a window display movement control unit for moving to a location of and displaying a window.

[0007]

According to the plant monitoring and operating device of the invention of claim 1,
A simple graphic display of the system diagram of the monitored plant is displayed on the display device, and when an abnormality occurs in some equipment in the plant, the abnormality occurrence display control unit displays the abnormality occurrence display on the symbol display portion of the corresponding equipment. At the same time, the abnormality processing priority determination unit determines the priority order of the abnormality processing among the abnormality-occurring devices, and the window display control unit displays various windows for each abnormality-occurring device in a window in the order of priority.

Therefore, even if an abnormality occurs in a plurality of plant devices at the same time, the operator can perform the abnormality process in order of priority by performing the abnormality process on the abnormal device while observing the window display. .

In the plant monitoring and operating device according to the second aspect of the present invention, the window display movement control unit further moves the window display of various information corresponding to the abnormality-occurring devices for which the abnormality processing has been completed in the order of priority to another window. Display it so that you can easily check the procedure of the error processing that has already been completed.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a common embodiment of the inventions of claims 1 and 2. The plant monitoring and operating device of this embodiment has, as general components, a CRT display device 1, a touch screen 2 mounted on the front surface of the display device 1 and capable of performing touch input, and a touch screen 2 of the touch screen 2. A touch detection unit 3 that processes a touch input, a printer 4 as an output device, a keyboard 5 that inputs various information, and a monitoring operation control unit 6 that executes monitoring operation control of a monitored plant according to a predetermined program. A plant equipment 8 is connected to the monitoring operation control unit 6 via an interface 7.

The plant monitoring operation device also monitors the CRT display device 1 and a database 9 which stores simple graphic information for displaying a simplified graphic representation of the system diagram of the monitored plant 8 on the screen of the CRT display device 1. A simple graphic display of the system diagram of the target plant
Further, when an abnormality occurs in some of the constituent devices of the monitored plant 8, the simple graphic display control unit 10 performs an abnormal occurrence display on the symbol display portion corresponding to the abnormal occurrence device on the simple graphic display screen of the CRT display device 1. Is equipped with.

The plant monitoring and operating apparatus of this embodiment is characterized by an abnormal processing priority order determination unit 11 for determining the priority order of abnormal processing among abnormalities, and a simple graphic display screen of the CRT display device 1. The window display control unit 12 that displays various windows for each abnormality-occurring device in the order of priority determined by the abnormality processing priority determination unit 11 and the window-display control unit 12 that displays information about each abnormality-occurring device displayed in the window A window movement display control unit 13 for moving the window display corresponding to the device for which the abnormality processing is completed to another window on the simple graphic display screen of the CRT display device 1 and a window at any position on the simple graphic display screen. An allocation processing unit 14 is provided which performs an allocation process for displaying.

Next, the operation of the plant monitoring and operating device having the above-mentioned configuration will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS. 2 and 3, and FIG.
The example will be described with reference to the screen display example. At normal times, the monitoring operation control unit 6 monitors and controls the plant equipment 8, and the simple graphic display control unit 10 extracts corresponding simple graphic symbol data from the simple graphic symbol database 9 and displays the system of the monitored plant on the CRT display device 1. The simple graphic display of the figure is performed.

If there is a necessary operation, the touch detection portion 3 detects the touch position on the touch screen 2 by touching the symbol display portion of the corresponding plant equipment on the simple graphic display screen of the CRT display device 1. Then, the operation screen for the corresponding plant equipment is retrieved from the same database 9 and displayed on the CRT display device 1 in an expanded manner, and the target operation command is input by touching the display portion of the corresponding operation again.

Next, when an abnormality occurs in some of the plant equipment 8, the monitoring operation control unit 6 identifies the equipment in which the abnormality has occurred, and the simple graphic display control unit 10 flickers the symbol display portion of the identified plant equipment. , The abnormality is displayed by changing the color (step S1).

At the same time, the abnormality processing priority order judgment unit 11
Determines the priority order of the abnormality processing among the abnormality-occurring plant devices (step S2), the allocation processing unit 14 allocates the window display location of the abnormal-occurrence device in the simple graphic display screen, and the window display control unit 12 performs the simple calculation. The window display data of various information of the corresponding abnormality occurrence device is retrieved from the graphic symbol database 9 and the CRT is displayed.
A window is displayed on the simple graphic display screen of the display device 1 in a state in which various pieces of information of each abnormality-causing device are slightly shifted based on the allocation processing of the allocation processing unit 14 in accordance with the abnormality processing priority order (step S3).

The display mode of the CRT display device 1 is shown in FIG.
As shown in (a), the symbol display portion 16 of the abnormality occurrence device in the simple graphic display screen 15 is shown.
a, 16b, 16c display an error occurrence, and at the same time,
A window display 17 of various information about the abnormality-causing device is being performed.

Then, when the operator performs a command input operation for necessary abnormality processing by touch input from the highest priority order while looking at the window display 17 (step S4), the touch detection unit 3 makes the touch input. Is detected, the monitoring operation control unit 6 executes the corresponding abnormality processing.

When the first abnormal process is completed by this operation, as shown in FIG. 4 (b), the allocation processing unit 14 displays the window screen of various information of the abnormal device for which the abnormal process has been completed to the processing end window display location. Then, the window movement display control unit 13 moves the window screen for which the abnormal processing has been finished and displays it there (steps S5 to S7 in FIG. 3).

When the first abnormality processing is completed in this way,
The window display control unit 12 controls the display so that a window of information of the abnormality-occurring device having the next highest priority appears in the abnormality processing window display portion 17 (steps S3 and S4 in FIG. 2). By repeating the process, the control for sequentially moving and displaying the window for which the abnormal process is completed to the process end window display place 18 is repeated (steps S5 to S in FIG.
7).

Upon completion of all abnormality processing of the abnormality-causing device, the above window display processing and window movement display processing are completed (step S8 in FIG. 3).

In this way, in the plant monitoring and operating device of this embodiment, when the CRT display device 1 is performing the simple graphic display of the monitored plant, if the abnormalities occur in some of the plant devices at the same time, the simple graphic display screen is displayed. An error occurrence is displayed on the symbol display part of the applicable device above, and various information for the error processing of the applicable device is displayed in a window so as to be overlapped in order of priority, and a simple graphic is displayed when the error processing is completed. By moving to another location on the display screen and displaying it in the same window so that it overlaps, even if an abnormality occurs that requires complicated operations, the operator automatically prioritizes by viewing the window display. It becomes possible to execute abnormality processing in descending order of Work is properly done so to facilitate.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the window display position and the display content of the window can be changed appropriately. Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, each function is divided into blocks, but each function is actually realized by program control by the microcomputer.

[0024]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1,
A simple graphic display of the system diagram of the monitored plant is displayed on the display device, and when an abnormality occurs in some equipment in the plant, the abnormality occurrence display control unit displays the abnormality occurrence display on the symbol display portion of the corresponding equipment. At the same time, the abnormality processing priority determination unit determines the priority order of abnormality processing among the abnormality-causing devices, and the window display control unit displays the windows for each abnormality-causing device in a superimposed manner in the priority order. Therefore, even if an error occurs in multiple plant devices at the same time, the operator can execute the error process in order of priority by sequentially performing the error process for the error device while observing the window display. Can be done easily and accurately.

According to the invention of claim 2, in addition to the invention of claim 1, the window display movement control unit further displays a window display of various information corresponding to the abnormality-occurring device whose abnormality processing has been completed in another order. Since the window is displayed and the procedure of the abnormal processing that has already been completed can be easily confirmed, the operator can confirm the abnormal processing that he / she has performed, and the accuracy of the abnormal processing operation is ensured. be able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a common embodiment of the inventions of claims 1 and 2. FIG.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a window display function at the time of abnormality processing of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a window movement display function at the time of abnormality processing in the above embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a display example of a window display function at the time of abnormality processing of the above embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CRT display device 2 touch screen 3 touch detection unit 4 printer 5 keyboard 6 monitoring operation control unit 7 interface 8 plant equipment 9 database 10 simple graphic display control unit 11 abnormal processing priority determination unit 12 window display control unit 13 window movement display control Part 14 Allocation processing part 15 Simple graphic display screen 16a, 16b, 16c Abnormal device display part 17 Window display place 18 Window move display place

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A system diagram of a monitored plant is displayed on a display device in a simple graphic form, and a pointing device is used to indicate the symbol display portion of each device in the system diagram displayed in the simple graphic form, thereby displaying various information about the corresponding device. In a plant monitoring operation device that displays a window, an abnormality occurrence display control unit that displays an abnormality occurrence in the symbol display unit corresponding to the abnormality occurrence device of the monitored plant, and an abnormality occurrence when multiple abnormality occurrence devices An abnormality processing priority determining unit that determines the priority of abnormality processing between devices, and on the simple graphic display screen of the display device, in the order of priority determined by the abnormality processing priority determining unit, for each abnormality generating device. A plant monitoring operation device including a window display control unit for displaying various information in a window . 2. The plant monitoring and operating apparatus according to claim 1, further, of the information for each of the abnormality-causing devices displayed in the window, the window display corresponding to the device for which the abnormality processing is completed is moved to another location. A plant monitoring and operating device comprising a window display movement control unit for displaying a window.