Method for controlling and/or monitoring data processing device and computer program
AssigneeAccenture Global Services Limited
InventorsStefano Bergantino, Luigi Gagliardi, Marco Irione
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Abstract
A graphical user interface, implemented in a standard system management environment, accepts selections of logical instruction steps that are external to the standard system management environment. The logical instruction steps may include process steps, specify chemical formulae, or identify other components of master recipes that control drug manufacture or dispensing, as examples. The external logical instruction steps are introduced into the standard system management environment and approved. The standard system management environment subsequently controls the drug manufacturing or dispensing processes according to the external logical instruction steps.
Claims30
A process control method comprising:
- providing a graphical user interface (GUI) in an existing process management environment that controls a process;
- accepting a selection of external logical instruction steps through the GUI, where the external logical instruction steps are external with respect to the existing process management environment;
- introducing the external logical instruction steps into the existing process management environment;
- approving the external logical instruction steps for the existing process management environment;
- and
- controlling the process using the existing process management environment in accordance with the external logical instruction steps.
A process control system comprising:
- a display for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for an existing process management environment that controls a process and that accepts a selection of external logical instruction steps;
- a communication interface operable to receive the external logical instruction steps from an external database;
- introduction logic operable to introduce the external logical instruction steps into the existing process management environment;
- approval logic operable to approve the external logic instruction steps for the existing processing management environment;
- and
- a process controller operable to control the process using the existing process management environment in accordance with the external logical instruction steps.
A process control system according to claim 16, further comprising:
- setting logic operable to set a value for the parameter input through the GUI;
- and where the approval logic is further operable to approve the value.
A machine readable memory comprising processor executable instructions to:
- provide a graphical user interface (GUI) in an existing process management environment that controls a process;
- accept a selection of external logical instruction steps through the GUI, where the external logical instruction steps are external with respect to the existing process management environment;
- introduce the external logical instruction steps into the existing process management environment;
- approve the external logical instruction steps for the existing process management environment;
- and
- control the process using the existing process management environment in accordance with the external logical instruction steps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.