A user-friendly visualisation system should allow the operator to easily adapt the process information presentation method to individual needs and the requirements of current process conditions. The TABLE object takes special place among other visualisation objects. It is used for viewing in a tabular form of current process variables, which are freely selected online by the Operator or grouped into sets pre-defined by the application designer A predefined TABLE object can be used to display any set of variables, including: all variable attributes (ID name, description, unit or other attributes arbitrarily defined by the application designer) and current values, while dynamically matching the number of displayed rows to the number of variables in the set being displayed. Drive status variables can be shown in the table as text reflecting the status of individual drives rather than numbers, for example On, Off, Auto. Obviously this improves clarity of information and reduces the risk of making a mistake.

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