360-Degree Automation Visualization With Interactive Machine Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing automation system visualizations often lose overview in complex systems, especially when displaying machine data, and offer limited interaction possibilities.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing 360-degree panorama data and function blocks for enhanced interaction points within a visualization application, allowing real-time machine data exchange and navigation through the automation system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional 2D visualization interfaces are used for complex automation systems, then the system structure can be displayed, but the overview is lost and interaction possibilities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D visualization to 360-degree immersive visualization, adding a spatial dimension to the interface. This allows operators to navigate around virtual representations of automation components, providing comprehensive system overview while maintaining easy access to interaction points through spatial positioning rather than complex menu navigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The 360-degree visualization system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides system overview, displays real-time machine data, enables navigation to different components, and offers interaction capabilities all within a single immersive interface, replacing multiple separate 2D displays and control panels.
2Measurement precision
If detailed machine data is displayed in traditional visualization systems, then monitoring capability is improved, but the system complexity increases and overview is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The visualization system divides the automation system into discrete interactive components or zones within the 360-degree environment. Each component can be independently configured to display specific machine data, allowing detailed monitoring without overwhelming the entire interface. Operators can focus on individual segments rather than being presented with all data simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions or components within the 360-degree visualization have specialized qualities - some areas display detailed machine data, others show system overview, and interaction points are marked with specific visual indicators. This local differentiation allows detailed monitoring where needed while maintaining overall simplicity.
3Productivity
If traditional HMI interfaces are used for monitoring automation systems, then basic monitoring is possible, but decision-making efficiency decreases due to limited interaction capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures interaction points and associated functions within the 360-degree visualization, so that commonly needed operations are already positioned and ready for immediate access. Operators don't need to search through menus or navigate complex interfaces to perform routine interactions - everything is pre-positioned in the immersive environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The visualization system provides immediate visual feedback when operators interact with components, showing real-time responses to actions taken. This rapid feedback loop accelerates decision-making by confirming the effects of operator actions instantly, rather than requiring operators to check multiple displays or wait for system responses.
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AI summary
A system for visualizing an automation system is proposed, which includes at least a server unit and at least one client unit. The server unit provides the client unit with a visualization application, which includes panorama data of the automation system and function blocks which define interactions for interaction points. The server unit integrates the function blocks in such a way into the visualization application that an interaction linked to a respective interaction point can be triggered by selecting the respective interaction point. The server unit exchanges machine data with the automation system to make the machine data available for the function blocks and the interactions integrated into the visualization application. The client unit retrieves the visualization application from the server unit to interpret and execute the received visualization application such that the panorama data of the automation system are displayed as representation of the automation system.