Centum VP Graphics

Olivier Suc
Project Manager
Good Manufacturing
Practices, Inc

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Customers Graphic Specifications

R3.x standard parts and graphics
Conversion process
Additional work
Summary

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Customers Graphic Specifications

Power Industry Standards

Piping Colors

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DodgerBlue (Feedwater)
Salmon (Steam)
Yellow (Gas)
Brown (Fuel Oil)

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Customers Graphic Specifications

Graphic Requirements
Valve Colors and Status Indications
Mode Status

Status
Indication

Traveling
Indication

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Customers Graphic Specifications

Graphic Requirements
Pumps Colors and Status Indications
Status
Indication
(Stopped
/Running)

Mode Status
(Manual/Auto)

Permissives

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R3.x standard parts and graphics

New Project but re-use existing standards

Current Hardware/Software Standards

Dell (Corporate Program)

Windows XP and Windows 2003
Matrox Card, 4 LCD-screen configurations
R3.08.10

Graphic standards to re-use

Multi-platform Corporate standards (Ovation, Centum)
Operators Familiarity (behavior, look and feel)

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R3.x standard parts and graphics

Customer has
Interest in the new Trend tool
Interest in the new Alarm Management System
Interest in the new graphic capabilities

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R3.x standard parts and graphics

Hardware/Software
Dell (Corporate Program) T3400 PCI Slot-5 is
not to be used for VI-701 card.
Windows XP and Windows 2003
Matrox Card, 4 LCD-screen configurations Nvidia
NVS 440 (4-screen) or NVS290 (2-screen)
R3.08.10R4.01.03

Graphic standards to re-use

Multi-platform Corporate standards (Ovation, Centum)
Operators Familiarity (behavior, look and feel)

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R3.x standard parts and graphics

Graphic standards to re-use

Multi-platform Corporate standards (Ovation, Centum)
Operators Familiarity (behavior, look and feel)

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R3.x standard parts and graphics

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Conversion Process

Develop R3.08.x applications for existing

customers
Develop R4.01.x applications for new customers
VMWare

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Conversion Process

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Conversion Process

R3.08 to R4.01 conversion

Project Attribute Utility Registration
System View

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Conversion Process

R3.08 to R4.01 conversion

HIS Database Conversion Tool

Unchecked Not much converts

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Checked All converts but

ungrouped

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Conversion Process

R3.08 to R4.01 conversion

Necessity to go to all link parts and formerly grouped

entities and check all overlapping Z-order
Necessity to re-group all link parts and formerly
grouped entities.
Most of the work for the conversion. Could be
painstaking with animated parts.
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Conversion Process

System View looks the same

Except for the

(CENTUM VP) in
the title bar.

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Conversion Process (Before)

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Conversion Process (After)

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Additional Work

1. Screen resolution seems off

need to customize the dimension

2. Text alignment is off

Rework the linkparts or apply 4.01.26 registry patch

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Additional Work

New Graphic Builder

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Additional Work

Stencil (linkparts)
Graphic window
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Additional Work

Stencil

Out-Of-The-Box
parts
Custom parts

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Additional Work

Stencil and parts edition

Part tab

Right Click

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Additional Work

Stencil and parts

Make a collection of re-usable parts
Stencil is saved in its own folder inside the project
folder (Project folder\linkpartsVP)
Stencil folder can be copied over to another project
using Windows Explorer

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Additional Work

Layers
Insert a picture
of a P&ID
Graphic Layers to
separate different
categories of data

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Additional Work

Controls Layer is active. All Layers are displayed.

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Additional Work

Oil Layer Layer is active. All Layers are hidden.

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Additional Work

Layers
Simplify the management of complex graphics
Separate elements of the graphics by categories
Improve placement and edition accuracy

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Parts Placement / Position

As originally defined the parts will be inserted with
(X1,Y1) coordinates as a reference.

Y2

Y1

X1

X1

Overall length
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Additional Work

Parts Placement / Position

As the part get updated, Y2 > Y1.
The graphic will see the newly updated pump drop
from its former location to Y2-Y1 pixels below
Similar behavior will occur if the X axis is changed.

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Additional Work

Universal Color Design

Computers color coding
Name

Area

Light Blue Raw Water, Treated Water and Feedwater

46 82 B4

Grey

Activated Carbon Filters

66 66 66

Light Pink

Cation & Anion

FF C0 CB

Dark Blue

Waste Neutralization

19 19 70

Orange

Sulfuric Acid

FF A5

Green

Caustic

9A CD 32

Light Pink

Phosphate

FF B5 FF

Olive Green Re-Alkalization

80 80

Yellow

System Maintenance

FF FF 55

Dark Pink

Emergency Eye Wash

F4

White

Electrical Information

FF FF FF

0
7A

Standardization of color schemes and conventions

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Summary

Still not converting the graphics 100%

Unified Color Design
Layers
Stencils
XAML
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) .Net
objects/components

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(do not use an extremely different size).

First Level: Tahoma, 28 points

Second Point: Tahoma, 28 points
Third Point: Tahoma, 28 points
Fourth Point: Tahoma, 28 points
Subpoint: Tahoma, 24 points
Another Subpoint: Tahoma, 20 points
Another Subpoint: Tahoma, 18 points
Last Point: Tahoma, 16 points

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