Graphical user interface (GUI) systems and methods for refactoring full-size process plant displays at various zoom and detail levels for visualization on mobile user interface devices

A graphical user interface (GUI) based system configured to refactor full-size process plant displays at various zoom and detail levels for visualization on mobile user interface devices, the GUI based system comprising:

• a server comprising one or more processors, the server communicatively coupled to a process control network of a process plant comprising a plurality of process plant entities;
• and
• a mobile display navigation app executing on one or more processors of a mobile user interface device, the mobile display navigation app communicatively coupled to the server,
• wherein the server is configured to transmit a full-size process plant display to the mobile user interface device, the full-size process plant display graphically representing at least a portion of the process plant, the full-size process plant display including graphic representations of the plurality of process plant entities within the process plant, wherein the a full-size process plant display is a GUI adapted for rendering on a full-size display screen of the process plant,
• wherein the display mobile navigation app is configured to:
• render, on a processor of the mobile user interface device, a first view portion of the full-size process plant display on a display screen of the mobile user interface device, the first view portion defining a first zoom level and a first detail level of a process plant entity selected from the plurality of process plant entities, wherein the display screen of the mobile user interface device comprises a surface area that is less than a full-size surface area of the full-size display screen,
• receive a gesture command corresponding to a user manipulation of the surface area of the mobile user interface device, and
• render, upon the mobile display navigation app receiving the gesture command, a second view portion of the full-size process plant display on the display screen of the mobile user interface device, the second view portion defining a second zoom level and a second detail level of the process plant entity,
• wherein at least one of the first view portion or the second view portion comprises a predefined graphical resolution view portion of the full-size process plant display,
• wherein the first zoom level differs from the second zoom level, and
• wherein the first detail level differs from the second detail level.

A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for refactoring full-size process plant displays at various zoom and detail levels for visualization on mobile user interface devices, that when executed by one or more processors of a computing device cause the computing device to:

• transmitting, by one or more processors, a full-size process plant display to a mobile user interface device, the full-size process plant display graphically representing at least a portion of a process plant, the full-size process plant display including graphic representations of a plurality of process plant entities within the process plant,
• wherein the full-size process plant display is a GUI adapted for rendering on a full-size display screen of the process plant;
• rendering, by a mobile display navigation app executing on a processor of the mobile user interface device, a first view portion of the full-size process plant display on a display screen of the mobile user interface device, the first view portion defining a first zoom level and a first detail level of a process plant entity selected from the plurality of process plant entities,
• wherein the display screen of the mobile user interface device comprises a surface area that is less than a full-size surface area of the full-size display screen;
• receiving, at the mobile display navigation app, a gesture command corresponding to a user manipulation of the surface area of the mobile user interface device;
• and
• rendering, by a mobile display navigation app upon receiving the gesture command, a second view portion of the full-size process plant display on the display screen of the mobile user interface device, the second view portion defining a second zoom level and a second detail level of the process plant entity,
• wherein at least one of the first view portion or the second view portion comprises a predefined graphical resolution view portion of the full-size process plant display,
• wherein the first zoom level differs from the second zoom level, and wherein the first detail level differs from the second detail level.