Facility Mimic Diagram Segmentation for Client Load Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current facility mimic diagrams in technical facilities face challenges with stability, reliability, and performance due to overloading, leading to sluggish or frozen visual representations and potential crashes in operator station clients, making it difficult to optimize and predict load issues during project planning.
Innovation Solution
A management system with an operator station server and client that automatically informs the engineering station server of visual representation limitations, allowing for dynamic adjustments and feedback on potential overloads, enabling project engineers to optimize facility mimic diagrams without causing client overload.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple containers are embedded in a facility mimic diagram to enable modular visualization, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but device complexity and rendering load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The facility mimic diagram is divided into multiple independent containers, each representing a separate process object or function. This segmentation allows modular visualization where each container can be independently configured, rendered, and updated without affecting others, thus improving adaptability while managing complexity through modular architecture.
2Measurement precision
If rendering precision and update frequency are increased for accurate process monitoring, then measurement precision is improved, but productivity and system performance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Different containers can have different rendering qualities and update frequencies based on their importance and complexity. Critical process parameters are rendered with high precision and frequent updates, while less critical elements use lower rendering quality. This allows the system to maintain measurement precision for important parameters while preserving overall system performance.
3Adaptability or versatility
If update frequency is increased to respond to changing process conditions, then adaptability is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to client overloading and crashes
Solution Approach 1:
The system updates containers with different frequencies based on their importance and current state. Not all containers are updated at maximum frequency simultaneously, which prevents client overloading while still providing timely updates for critical process parameters. This partial action approach maintains adaptability to changing conditions while preserving client reliability.
4Reliability
If rendering load is reduced to prevent client crashes, then reliability is improved, but measurement precision and visualization quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
When rendering load needs to be reduced, the system selectively reduces quality for non-critical containers while maintaining high precision for important process parameters. This allows the system to preserve measurement precision for key measurements even when overall rendering load is reduced to prevent client crashes.
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AI summary
A method for visual representation of a facility mimic diagram of a technical facility, in particular a process or manufacturing facility, which has an operator station server, an engineering station server and an operator station client, wherein a) a facility mimic diagram of the technical facility is transferred from the operator station server to the operator station client, b) visually limiting representation of the facility mimic diagram by the operator station client, and c) automatically notifying the engineering station server about the limitation of the visual representation of the facility mimic diagram set by the operator station client via a message.