Method and system for displaying proiritized live thumbnail of process graphic views

A method of management and process control in a plant including a field controller providing process control using function blocks identified by tags, a server computer, and a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) machine communicating with each other, said method comprising the steps of:

• monitoring, by the server computer, addition, deletion or change in at least one of a plurality of graphic files stored in a graphic files repository;
• extracting, by the server computer, monitored tags identifying function blocks from the graphic files from the graphic files repository based on predefined rules for monitoring;
• monitoring, by the server computer, at least one real time data source for alarm status and data status changes relating to the monitored tags;
• reading, by the server computer, tag importance information and alarm priority information for the monitored tags from engineering information data source
• prioritizing, by the server computer, graphic views used in the graphic files for the monitored tags by ranking each of the graphic views based on a total score determined from values for the tags related to each graphic view mapped in a graphic ranking table mapping different tag importance levels with different alarm priority levels corresponding to each of the tags related to each graphic views;
• automatically identifying and displaying, by the HMI machine, pre-configured views of prioritized live thumbnails of the prioritized graphic views;
• updating the pre-configured views of the thumbnails of the prioritized graphic views with real time data.

A non-transitory computer readable medium including operations stored thereon that when processed by at least one processor cause a system to perform the steps of:

• monitoring addition, deletion or change in at least one of a plurality of graphic files stored in a graphic files repository;
• extracting monitored tags identifying function blocks of a field controller from the graphic files from the graphic files repository based on predefined rules for monitoring;
• monitoring at least one real time data source for alarm status and data status changes relating to the monitored tags;
• reading importance information and alarm priority information for the monitored tag from engineering information data source;
• ranking each of the graphic views used in the graphic files for the monitored tags based on a total score determined from values for the tags related to each graphic view mapped in a graphic ranking table mapping different tag importance levels with different alarm priority levels corresponding to each of the tags related to each graphic view;
• automatically identifying and displaying pre-configured views of prioritized thumbnails of the prioritized graphic views;
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• periodically updating the pre-configured views of the thumbnails of the prioritized graphic views with real time data.