Abstract: An apparatus and method for receiving operational data and displaying summaries of processes for an industrial system includes a block object to define blocks for defining aspects of variables related to the operational data as well as a display client for using the blocks to provide useful and concise summaries of the processes.

Abstract: The disclosed method relates to conveying a time component in a data representation comprising: attaching a time stamp to a data point and calculating an opacity for said data point based upon a time component of said data point. The disclosed computer program relates to conveying a time component in a data representation comprising: receiving at least one data point with a time component, and calculating an opacity for said data point based upon the time component of said data point. The disclosed system relates to conveying a time component in a data representation comprising: attaching a time stamp to a data point, and calculating an opacity for said data point based upon at least one time component of said data point.

Abstract: A method of managing a machinery monitoring system is provided. The machinery monitoring system includes a database of at least one rule set, the rule set including at least one rule expressed as a relational expression of a real-time data output relative to a real-time data input, the relational expression being specific to a plant asset. The method includes importing data representative of a rule set into the machinery monitoring system, applying the at least one rule set to a specific plant asset wherein the at least one rule set is configured to locate the data input using at least a portion of the relative path information, determining a data output of the at least one rule set using the at least one relational expression and the data input, and transmitting the data output to at least one of the machinery monitoring system and the plant monitoring and control system.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of managing a machinery monitoring system is provided. The method includes relating an asset output to at least one asset input, generating at least one rule based on the relation, selecting at least one of live asset data, historical asset data, user-supplied asset data, and third party supplied asset data to test the at least one rule, testing the at least one rule incrementally using the selected asset data, and monitoring the output of the at least one rule at each increment.