Situational Awareness Projects
- Last UpdatedJul 13, 2023
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A Situational Awareness project is designed to support abnormal situation management for operators. It can be used to create a Plant SCADA project that provides accurate information to an operator in a way that can be perceived and acted upon quickly, without overwhelming their cognitive abilities.
This objective is achieved through:
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A consistent look and feel for graphical content.
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The use of standardized color settings, optimized for perceiving process data and alarms.
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The use of objects that conform to an optimized display hierarchy.
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Easy access to information related to the selected context.
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The inclusion of navigation aids and an operator dashboard.
To support these principles, a default layout is applied to projects created using a Situational Awareness Starter project. The layout includes common elements such as a header bar, content area, and a dashboard that displays contextual information and navigational tools. See Default Layout.
Situational Awareness projects differ to other pure template-based projects as they use "Workspace" technology to manage the content of a Master Page that appears on each configured client screen. Each pane in a Master Page displays a page that can be updated independently at runtime based on navigational or contextual changes. The Workspace is responsible for managing contextual updates to those panes by using the association between the hierarchical location of a detected change, and the type of content each pane is configured to display. See Key Components of a Situational Awareness Project.
A set of library objects are also available via an included library project (named "SA_Library"). The included objects support the Workspace autofill functionality at runtime and maintain a consistent look and feel across a project's display pages (see Libraries).
Note: Avoid making changes to the included SA_Include project for use as a runtime project. A Plant SCADA upgrade will install a new version of the project, which will overwrite any changes you make.