# US 2018/0150054 A1 · Real-time compliance status for equipment > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0150054 A1 - Document ID: US20180150054A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/365,270 - Filed: 2016-11-30 - Published: 2018-05-31 - Earliest claimed: 2016-11-30 - Assignees: Eurotherm Limited - Applicants: Eurotherm Limited - Inventors: Andrew Waterson; Jurgita Valmante; Kevin Robinson - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180150054A1 ## CPC - G05B 19/4063: Monitoring general control system (G05B19/4062 takes precedence) - G06Q 10/0639: Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations - G05B 2219/40357: Compliance, design and operational issues - 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) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract Providing real-time compliance status for industrial process equipment. Aspects of the disclosure provide a common platform to receive data indicative of services performed on industrial process equipment via a plurality of formats and to provide the data representing the real-time compliance status via a unified format on, for example, a graphical user interface of a computing device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system comprising: at least one service provider computing device, the service provider computing device configured to transmit data, via a communications network, indicative of services performed on an instrument, the instrument comprising a device of an industrial process; a management system computing device, the management system computing device communicatively coupled to the at least one service provider computing device via the communications network, the management system computing device configured to generate a real-time compliance status for the device based on the data transmitted by the at least one service provider indicative of the services performed on the instrument; and a user computing device, the user computing device communicatively coupled to the management system computing device via the communications network, wherein the management system computing device is configured to provide the real-time compliance status of the device to the user computing device via the communications network in response to receiving a request for the real-time compliance status. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, the user computing device displays a graphical representation of the real-time compliance status in response to said providing. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the graphical representation includes at least one of: a pass indicator, an expired indicator, a failed indicator, and a passed but will expire in a predetermined amount of time indicator. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the management system computing device is further configured to generate a real-time compliance status for a plant area within which the instrument is located and provide the real-time compliance status of the plant area to the user computing device via the communications network. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the real-time compliance status of the instrument is provided to the user computing device in a unified format. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the management system computing device is further configured to link the instrument to a corresponding certificate documenting compliance status. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the management system computing device is further configured to aggregate multi-tier compliance status ### Claim 8 A method comprising: receiving, by a management system computing device via a communications network, data indicative of services performed on a first instrument; receiving, by the management system computing device via the communications network, data indicative of services performed on a second instrument, the first and second instruments comprising a device of an industrial process; generating a real-time compliance status for the industrial process device by combining the received data with data indicative of services performed on the second instrument; and providing the real-time compliance status of the industrial process device to a user computing device via the communications network in response to a request therefor from the user computing device. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the user computing device displays a graphical representation of the real-time compliance status in response to said providing. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein the graphical representation includes at least one of: a pass indicator, an expired indicator, a failed indicator, and a passed but will expire in a predetermined amount of time indicator. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising: generating a real-time compliance status for a plant area in which the industrial process device is located; and providing the real-time compliance status of the plant area to the user computing device via the communications network in response to a request therefor from the user computing device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the data indicative of services performed on the first instrument is in a first format and wherein the data indicative of services performed on the second instrument is in a second format. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the real-time compliance status of the industrial process device is provided to the user computing device in a unified format. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising linking the industrial process device to a corresponding certificate documenting compliance status. ### Claim 15 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising aggregating multi-tier compliance status. ### Claim 16 A computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, perform the steps of: receiving data, via a communications network, indicative of services performed on an instrument, the instrument comprising a device of an industrial process; generating a real-time compliance status for the instrument based on the data indicative of the services performed on the instrument; generating a graphical user interface for display on a user computing device, the user interface including a graphical object for each of a plurality of tiers of devices of the industrial process; and associating a graphical compliance status indicator with each of the graphical objects to provide a real-time compliance status of the plurality of tiers of devices of the industrial process. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the graphical compliance status indicator includes at least one of: a pass indicator, an expired indicator, a failed indicator, and a passed but will expire in a predetermined amount of time indicator. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the graphical compliance status indicator comprises a representation of a traffic signal displaying red, yellow, and green indicators lights representing status of a compliance test. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the real-time compliance status is provided to the user computing device in a unified format.