Operator Watch Area in a Process Control Plant

A system for presenting a watch area display view in a process plant, the system comprising:

• one or more devices disposed in the process plant each performing a physical function to control an industrial process;
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• a computing device including:
• one or more processors;
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• a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing an operator application thereon, that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing device to:
• present, via a user interface of the computing device, indications of process control display elements in a first display region included in a layout of a display view, each of the process control display elements corresponding to one or more process parameters associated with the one or more devices;
• present, via the user interface, simultaneously with the first display region, a second display region in the layout of the display view, the second display region not occluding the process control display elements;
• receive, via the user interface, an indication that a user has selected, for display in the second display region, one of the process control display elements in the first display region;
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• present, via the user interface, in the second display region, one or more process parameters corresponding to the selected process control display element.