Visualizing time-series data in processlines: design and evaluation of a process enterprise application

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.

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