# US 10,025,298 B2 · User interface and method for eliminating faults in an industrial installation > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,025,298 B2 - Document ID: US10025298B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/437,217 - Filed: 2013-10-22 - Published: 2015-09-24 - Granted: 2018-07-17 - Earliest claimed: 2012-11-13 - Assignees: Siemens Aktiegesellschaft - Applicants: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Inventors: Christian Butter; Alexander Politiadis-Behrens; Eckhard Seibert; Silvio Wolf - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10025298B2 ## CPC - G05B 19/4184: {characterised by fault tolerance, reliability of production system} - G05B 23/0272: {Presentation of monitored results, e.g. selection of status reports to be displayed; Filtering information to the user} - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G05B 2219/13031: Use of touch screen - G05B 2219/23377: Touch screen, with representation of buttons, machine on screen - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract Technical installation data are visually preprocessed in a targeted manner in a control room or on a tablet with a touchscreen in mobile use by presenting a priority matrix. For this purpose, the interference messages are sorted, for example, horizontally with descending priority from left to right and vertically according to the installation part and are output. This largely relieves an operator of analysis and prioritization of the interference messages. The operator can therefore identify, locate and eliminate the most important interference messages in a shorter time. The number of priorities and installation parts considered is flexible since the matrix can be scaled to a wide variety of installation types, installation sizes and processes. All technical installation data relevant to assessing the situation are combined in one view. A second display area with a logical view is used to provide an overview of the complete industrial installation. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A user interface comprising: a data interface set up to receive fault messages which have each been assigned a priority from a plurality of priorities and an installation part from a plurality of installation parts of an industrial installation, wherein touch-sensitive display areas are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, the plurality of priorities having been sorted in a first dimension of the matrix such that each column in the first dimension refers to its own priority, and the plurality of installation parts having been sorted in a second dimension of the matrix such that each row in the second dimension refers to its own installation part, each touch-sensitive display area displaying a number of open fault messages and a number of acknowledged fault messages in the first dimension, in a same column, for each priority of the plurality of priorities; a second display region which is arranged beside the touch-sensitive display areas and is set up to output a logical view of the industrial installation, and a computing unit which is programmed to: display the fault messages in the corresponding touch-sensitive display areas according to the priority and the installation part associated with the fault message, subdivide the logical view into the plurality of installation parts, display the fault messages in or beside the respective plurality of installation parts in the logical view, and detect when one of the touch-sensitive display areas is touched, to select the respective priority, the respective installation part and the associated fault messages and to initiate user guidance in order to control the selected installation part for the purpose of processing the selected fault messages; wherein the fault messages are displayed and kept in sync on both the two-dimensional matrix and in the logical view to correlate the two-dimensional matrix and the second display region. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The user interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein each touch-sensitive display area consists of a digital display or a touchscreen, and a touch-sensitive contact or switch is actuated by touching or pressing on the display area. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The user interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein all touch-sensitive display areas are arranged on a single touchscreen. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The user interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user interface is part of a control room and the industrial installation is a power plant, or wherein the user interface is a touch-sensitive tablet and the industrial installation is a wind power plant. ### Claim 5 A method for eliminating faults in an industrial installation comprising: receiving, by a data interface, fault messages which are or have each been assigned a priority from a plurality of priorities and an installation part from a plurality of installation parts of an industrial installation, and arranging touch-sensitive display areas in a two-dimensional matrix, the plurality of priorities being sorted in a first dimension of the matrix such that each column in the first dimension refers to its own priority, and the plurality of installation parts being sorted in a second dimension of the matrix such that each row in the second dimension refers to its own installation part, each touch-sensitive display area displaying a number of open fault messages and a number of acknowledged fault messages in the first dimension, in a same column, for each priority of the plurality of priorities, wherein a second display region beside the touch-sensitive display areas displays a logical view of the industrial installation, wherein a computing unit: displays fault messages in the corresponding touch-sensitive display areas according to their priority and installation part, subdivides the logical view into the plurality of installation parts, and displays the fault messages in or beside the respective installation parts in the logical view, wherein the computing unit detects when one of the touch-sensitive display areas is touched and then selects the respective priority, the respective installation part and the associated fault messages and initiates user guidance in order to control the selected installation part for the purpose of processing the selected fault messages; wherein the fault messages are displayed and kept in sync on both the two-dimensional matrix and in the logical view to correlate the two-dimensional matrix and the second display region. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the computing unit displays both a number of open fault messages and a number of acknowledged fault messages in the display areas. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the computing unit displays, at the edge of the matrix, a table header which indicates a legend for the plurality of priorities and the plurality of installation parts and indicates a sum of a number of open fault messages over all installation parts for each priority. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium, which stores a computer program which carries out the method as claimed in claim 5 when it is executed in a computer. ### Claim 9 (depends on 5) A computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device storing a computer readable program code, the computer readable program code comprising an algorithm that when executed by a computer processor of a computing system implements the method as claimed in claim 5. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The user interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logical view is a block or tree diagram. ### Claim 11 (depends on 3) The user interface as claimed in claim 3, wherein the single touchscreen is a touch-sensitive tablet. ### Claim 12 (depends on 5) The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the logical view is a block or tree diagram.