
A display organized with the various components of a complex process represented by the rows, and selected parameters to be monitored listed in columns. The fields of the display which represent a particular "vital sign" for a particular component present two types of information: (1) alarms which indicate whether the parameter is in or out of limits and how close it is to failure; and (2) trends which indicate changes and types of changes, but do not pose a threat to the system. The alarms, in ...



