Methods and apparatus to control information presented to process plant operators

An operator station apparatus comprising:

• a display;
• an operator display module to present an operator application on the display;
• a dynamic attention user interface to be presented on the display to obtain content filtering rules from an operator;
• and
• a content filter module to adjust data presented by the operator application based on the importance of information parameters.

An article of manufacture storing machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to control information presented to a process plant operator by:

• presenting a first version of a process plant display;
• presenting a dynamic attention user interface when a selectable element of the first version of the process plant operator display is activated, wherein the dynamic attention user interface is to be used to adjust an importance of information presented in the first version of the process plant display;
• and
• presenting a second version of the process plant display based on a variable adjusted via the dynamic attention user interface.