Abstract: A process plant management system with asset health normalization and aggregation. Aspects of the system include asset monitoring components that sense operating parameters and determine the condition of assets using a number of disparate asset condition assessment methodologies based on those parameters. The system calculates normalized component health scores from the reported asset condition information and evaluates the normalized component health scores to produce an overall asset health score for each asset. The system maintains a hierarchical representation that organizes assets using physical and logical relationships. The system generates virtual health scores for parent objects in the hierarchy from the health scores of the children of each parent object.

Abstract: A process plant management system with asset health normalization and aggregation. Aspects of the system include asset monitoring components that sense operating parameters and determine the condition of assets using a number of disparate asset condition assessment methodologies based on those parameters. The system calculates normalized component health scores from the reported asset condition information and evaluates the normalized component health scores to produce an overall asset health score for each asset. The system maintains a hierarchical representation that organizes assets using physical and logical relationships. The system generates virtual health scores for parent objects in the hierarchy from the health scores of the children of each parent object.

Abstract: A method for adaptive test data reduction is performed by cooperative software applications running on a client computer and a server computer. On the client, a plotting application requests a range of test data, such as by specifying a starting time and either an ending time or a total number of data samples desired. The client application also specifies the number of points desired for display of the requested data, where the number of points is based on the screen size and resolution of the display device. Based on the client request, the server scans the requested data set and condenses it to produce a reduced resolution data set that is compatible with the display properties of the display device. The method prevents computers from having to send (or receive) more data than is actually needed to produce a desired data display.