Industrial status viewer system and method
AssigneeVardaman, Ltd.
InventorsTroy Cassels, Joshy Varghese
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Abstract
A method of providing industrial status views reflecting a schedule for industrial project plan generated by a project schedule planning and management application includes uploading the industrial project plan schedule, uploading CAD drawing files comprising a physical layout of resources, structural elements and equipment units included in the project plan schedule, extracting project data from the uploaded project schedule and CAD drawing files and generating Plan progress views that reflect expected completion percentages of intended project tasks and operations over a fixed industrial project timeline, according to the plan schedule, as well as Comparison progress views depicting a difference between the expected and actual project progress.
Claims27
A method of providing industrial status views reflecting a schedule for industrial project plan generated by a project schedule planning and management application, comprising steps of:
- uploading the industrial project plan schedule, which comprises project data including project resources, structural elements and equipment units and schedule data including activity codes and project timelines for executing scheduled work and operations on the resources, structural elements and equipment units;
- uploading CAD drawing files comprising a physical layout of the resources, structural elements and equipment units included in the project plan schedule;
- extracting project data from the uploaded project schedule and CAD drawing files;
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- generating Plan progress views by processing the extracted project and CAD drawing file data, the Plan progress views depicting the resources, structural elements and equipment units with display elements included to reflect expected completion percentages of intended project tasks and operations to be executed thereon as scheduled over the fixed industrial project timeline, according to the plan schedule.
A computer program product comprising a readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing computer program instructions readable by the processing circuit for performing a method of providing status views of progress on an industrial project in a form of a project schedule prepared and maintained by a project scheduling software application, the method comprising steps of:
- uploading the project schedule to an industrial status viewer, said schedule comprising a time-dependent schedule structure and project data identifying project equipment units and structural elements, project tasks, operations and resources needed to implement the tasks and operation over a scheduled timeline;
- uploading CAD drawing files to the industrial status viewer, said files comprising at least one physical layout of the planned industrial project identifying a relative location of the equipment units, structural elements and resource locations in accordance with the project schedule;
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- generating schedule progress views by processing the project data and the CAD drawing files, the schedule progress views depicting a project layout identifying a relative location of the equipment units, structural elements and resource locations with expected or actual completion percentages of project tasks and operations implemented over the scheduled timeline.
An industrial project status viewing (ISV) system, comprising:
- a workflow processor for receiving a project schedule and progress updates for an industrial project, and CAD drawing files associated with the project schedule, extracting and processing data therefrom, and generating project progress layout views depicting project structural elements, equipment units, project tasks, operations and resources in various stages of completion over a scheduled timeline;
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- a display processor for displaying progress layout views depicting an expected or actual completion percentages for each said structural elements, equipment units, project tasks, operations and resources at fixed times over the project timeline, and layout views highlighting a difference between expected and actual completion percentages of said structural elements, equipment units, project tasks, operations and resources at fixed times over the project timeline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.