US 12,189,359 B2
Method for simultaneous data visualization of data stemming from controlling and/or monitoring an industrial production process
Luc Claeys, Zingem (BE)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2016, as Appl. No. 15/262,046.
Claims priority of application No. 15184908 (EP), filed on Sep. 11, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2017/0075340 A1, Mar. 16, 2017
Int. Cl. G05B 19/4063 (2006.01); G05B 11/01 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2023.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/4063 (2013.01) [G05B 11/01 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); G06T 11/206 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40161 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
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1. A method of visualizing one or more dimensions of data in a manufacturing execution system (MES), the method comprising:
acquiring data from an industrial production process that is controlled by the manufacturing execution system (MES), wherein the data has a plurality of dimensions and each one of the dimensions stems from a respectively different one of a plurality of key performance indicators of the industrial production process;
creating a virtual reality landscape as a three-dimensional virtual terrain by mapping the data onto a plurality of symbols, the symbols being comprised in a symbol library, each symbol having a plurality of physical dimensions representing the plurality of dimensions of the data;
selecting the symbols in dependence on the value for the data, and at least one symbol of the plurality of symbols being a terrain shape metaphor in the virtual reality landscape, the at least one symbol having at least three physical dimensions, and three dimensions of the data are each respectively mapped on the at least three physical dimensions of said terrain shape;
displaying the virtual reality landscape to a user for enabling the user to at least one of control and monitor the industrial production process; and
enabling the mapping of the data and symbols to be changed by way of a user interface, wherein the user can interactively change or reshape the virtual reality landscape with the user interface independent of a change in the data.