P&ID Status Control - An Example

Open Schematic Model Manager and then open the Status Controller.

To use the new status definitions a new status layout must be configured.

Select the status attributes to be displayed.

The schematic elements to which the status definitions apply will be displayed, along with their status values.

The P&ID which have already been imported into the database have not yet had their status values set are displayed.

These P&ID have now ready to be issued for review and comment.

Select the SCDIAG elements and right click.

Select the correct status, in this example Issued for Review.

The status will now be set for the SCDIAG elements.

Select Status History from the right-click menu.

The status history will be shown, including the change to Rev A.

At this point in the P&ID development process further tasks take place. In this simplified example the P&IDs are Issued to engineers for checking and commenting and:

• To ensure that major equipment items are at relevant positions on drawings Equipment numbers align with Process Flow Diagrams and the layout of each P&ID is a representation of the process flow.

• To check the connectivity from P&ID to P&ID.

Each of these is supported by Schematic Model Manager. The following two sections explain how these activities are supported.