Visualizing time-series data in processlines
Xiongfei Luo, Feng Tian, Wei Liu, Dongxing Teng, Guozhong Dai, Hongan Wang · 2010
In modern process industry, it is often difficult to analyze a manufacture process due to its numerous time-series data. Analysts wish to not only interpret the evolution of data over time in a working procedure, but also examine the changes in the whole production process through time. To meet such analytic requirements, we have developed ProcessLines, an interactive visualization tool for a large amount of time-series data in process industry. The data are displayed in a fisheye timeline. ProcessLines provides good overviews for the whole production process and details for the focused working procedure. A user study using beer industry production data has shown that the tool is effective.