Abstract: An information retrieval system (1) for use with a control system (10) in a plant having processes and/or pieces of equipment, the control system (10) connected with at least one input component and/or at least one output component for monitoring and controlling the processes and the pieces of equipment, the control system enabled to produce state indications (12) from the input and output components indicating potential fault in one or more of: at least one input and/or output component; at least one process; at least one piece of equipment; a part of the control system (10); or, a part of the plant.

Abstract: A method for creating a searchable database of a set of documents having been prepared according to one or more native referencing protocols, the method including generating for each and every one of the documents in the set, one or more standard reference coordinates for segments defined by the native referencing protocol used to prepare the documents such that every native segment in the set of documents is defined according to the one or more standard reference protocol coordinates which define a spatial location and area of the native segment in an image of the document, such that a user, upon identifying a segment within the set of documents that contains a component of interest and selecting the segment in which the component of interest is located, causes information associated with components in the selected segment to be displayed

Abstract: An information retrieval system (1) for use with a control system (10) in a plant having processes and/or pieces of equipment, the control system (10) connected with at least one input component and/or at least one output component for monitoring and controlling the processes and the pieces of equipment, the control system enabled to produce state indications (12) from the input and output components indicating potential fault in one or more of: at least one input and/or output component; at least one process; at least one piece of equipment; a part of the control system (10); or, a part of the plant.