Event driven triggering of thin client resolution

A system comprising:

• an industrial automation component performing a monitoring and/or control operation on a controlled machine or process and creating a visualization of an aspect of the monitored and/or controlled operation;
• a thin client HMI configured to display the visualization to a user;
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• a visualization manager that, in operation, communicates with the thin client HMI to cause the thin client HMI to access and display the visualization from the industrial automation component, wherein the visualization is selected to provide adapted content based upon an event trigger of the controlled machine or process.

A system comprising:

• an industrial automation component performing a monitoring and/or control operation on a controlled machine or process and creating a visualization of an aspect of the monitored and/or controlled operation;
• a thin client HMI configured to display the visualization to a user;
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• a visualization manager that, in operation, communicates with the thin client HMI to cause the thin client HMI to access and display the visualization from the industrial automation component based upon policies stored in the visualization manager based upon relevance of the visualization to an event trigger of the controlled machine or process, a user, and a location of the thin client HMI with respect to the controlled machine or process.