Information generation device and computer-readable storage medium

An information generation device comprising:

• an image acquisition unit that acquires an image indicating a state of an industrial machine;
• a dictionary storage unit that stores a dictionary in which state information indicating a control state of a control device that controls the industrial machine is associated with drawing information for visually drawing the control state;
• a display mode storage unit that stores a display mode of the drawing information associated with the state information for each type of the state information;
• a state information acquisition unit that acquires the state information;
• a generation unit that generates display information for displaying the drawing information associated with the state information in the dictionary in the display mode associated with the type of the state information stored in the display mode storage unit, based on the state information acquired by the state information acquisition unit;
• an associating unit that associates the display information generated by the generation unit with the image acquired by the image acquisition unit;
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• an output unit that outputs the display information and the image associated with each other by the associating unit.