Tzero 1.1

Collaborative Process Control Software

Major Features:

• Multi-user distributed Java clients presents common operating picture via real-time visual timeline Visual dynamic task state animation
• Visual dynamic time marker
• Embedded task hyperlinks & configurable task details view
• Real-time sequencer engine accesses CCTK data and command services
• High level XML process control language enables state fusion, finite state machines, prerequisite logic, & reactive control

Typical Applications:

• Process control
• Shared situation awareness
• Paperless procedures
• Mission planning & operations design
• Automatic sequencer
• Launch control
• Fire control/safety
• Enterprise process automation
• Automated safety interlocks & constraint management

Configurations:

• Individual license
• Extra client licenses
• Network license
• Linux, UNIX platforms
• Client - Java Runtime Environment

Reference Material:

• Tzero Spec Sheet
• Product Customization Services
• Turnkey Systems Services
• Training

The T-Zero display is based on the familiar Gantt chart arrangement of timelines and indentured tasks. The multi-user displays animate in real-time to show progress and coordinate multi-operator tasks.

T-Zero is a unique process control program that facilitates automated design and execution of command, control, test, and monitoring activities. It features visualization of the operations process itself coupled with automated coordination of group activities. The patent-pending software provides a visual, role-based interactive timeline built on the real-time data processing power of the Command and Control Toolkit(CCTK). T-Zero is the perfect automation solution for labor-intensive procedural activities; improving process organization, repeatability, and freeing operations staff from tedious task details to focus on strategic operational objectives.

The Problem. Complex systems operations employed in space, defense, nuclear power, and other industries that have complex group activity are managed via a series of hierarchical, and at times quite complex, processes. These processes are historically coordinated verbally, usually guided by tedious procedures, with human operators executing process steps, manually monitoring conditions, reacting to state changes, recording and reporting results.

The Solution. T-Zero combines aspects of workflow control and real-time process control with a collaborative graphical user interface that acts as a context sensitive portal for role players to interact with processes and other role players. It makes processes and procedures executable, and capable of being instrumented with human, and systems input; while at the same time, increasing situational awareness and providing analytical information important to process improvement.

T-Zero's multi-platform java client presents a visual timeline with interactive symbols for process tasks, providing real-time task status, progress indication, and human dialogue interaction facilitating group decisions. T-Zero's real-time process sequencing engine executes process scripts that are created off-line using the simple T-Zero XML Process Description Language (PDL). The PDL describes the sequence of tasks, task entry constraints, and execution behavior. The engine executes the PDL, resolving task state and order of execution by continuously evaluating real-time data from CCTK, human users, and other tasks/processes state. The engine also broadcasts real-time progress updates to participating clients over standard TCP/IP networks to enable distributed operations