Feature Overview for AVEVA Electrical - Wiring Manager

Electrical Wiring Manager handles all tasks related to detail cable, wiring and termination design. Electrical Wiring Manager has three integrated modules:

Wiring Manager - Equipment

Enables fast definition and editing of equipment terminal arrangements including terminal strips, design of 'internal' wiring and cable terminations.

Wiring Manager - Cables

Enables fast definition of project cables from a user definable cable catalogue and assignment of cable ends to equipment. Also used to assign cable glands, gland adapters and for Bill of Materials reporting and Cable Drumming, and the sizing of power cables.

Wiring Manager - Cable Block Diagrams

Provides a graphical representation of cable interconnections. Users can create equipment and cables within each diagram or drag existing equipment into a diagram. All interconnected equipment is automatically added and the cables shown.

AVEVA Electrical uses 'Wiring Rules' to handle automatic generation of wiring and cabling. By using the Wiring Rules features, users can save many hours otherwise required to manually build terminal arrangements, cables, terminations etc. Refer to Using Wiring Rules for more information.

The features below enable easy and efficient cable/wiring design:

Advanced Graphic User Interface

• Graphical representation of all equipment terminal strips and terminals.

• Easy to learn, intuitive and accurate representation of plant equipment and cabling.

• Drag and drop wire terminations (from list of wires not yet terminated).

• Plant Equipment View displayed as hierarchy of plant areas, buildings, locations, equipment types, for easy access.

• Search for and locate any equipment tag in Equipment View or Cable Schedule.

• Jump to Cable Terminations from cable schedule and jump to other end of wire when viewing terminations.

• Build interactive cable block diagrams to view your project or plant cables.

• Jump to and edit Cable Terminations or internal equipment layout from any cable block diagram.

• Jump to and edit cable details from cable block diagram.

Cable Management

• Create cables by copying existing cables or create manually by selecting from the user definable cable catalogue.

• Cable Schedule grid supports user definable columns, order and filters.

• Auto create Cable Block Diagrams from the cable schedule.

• Merge two cables to create a new cable (where cables have same source and destinations).

• Split cables into two, based on cable properties (cable type, core size, screens/shields etc.).

• Change of catalogue number updates all core markings and re-aligns cores by type and marking.

• Assign Cable Glands from user definable gland catalogue based on gland/cable properties (that is auto match cable outside diameter/Gland range).

• Assign Cable Gland Adapters from user definable gland adapter catalogue based on gland/equipment connection properties.

• Produce cable schedule reports, cable Bill of Materials (BOM), Gland BOM and Gland Adapter BOM reports.

• Auto-assign cables to cable drums optimizing drum usage (minimizing cable wastage).

• Share individual cables and catalogue cables with AVEVA Instrumentation.

Equipment

• Graphical representation of all equipment terminal strips and terminals in Plant/Area hierarchy.

• Define equipment terminal arrangements.

• Copy existing equipment arrangements (and optionally cables and their terminations).

• Merge Terminal Strips in same equipment, move terminals to new strip (for example,. split), retaining wire terminations.

• Move Terminal Strips to other equipment, retaining wire terminations.

• Access equipment terminations.

• Create Termination diagram/reports in PDF format.

• Export equipment and equipment catalogue data to AVEVA AIM.

• Share individual equipment with AVEVA Instrumentation.

Cable/Wire Terminations

• Drag and drop wire terminations (on wire by wire basis or terminate an entire cable).

• Auto connect cables/wires by matching wire numbers.

• Work with a list of cables and cable cores not yet terminated.

• Supports multiple terminations per terminal.

• Supports wire number inheritance (wire numbers are 'passed' along interconnected cable cores and wires).

• Supports independent wire ferrule numbers and automatic ferrule numbering based on user-defined rules.

• Supports terminal marking modification (terminal re-numbering) one at a time or in groups.

• Automatic cross-patch wiring within equipment (for example, Marshalling Cabinets) and between equipment in same location (room).

• Supports "Links" between terminals, fused terminals and disconnect terminals.

• Supports "Looping Wires" between terminals (external links between terminals).

• Create graphical termination reports instantly in PDF format without requiring any CAD application.

• Export cable schedule, cable drum schedule and cable catalogue data to AVEVA AIM.

Cable Block Diagrams

• Auto create Cable Block Diagrams (CBDs) by dragging equipment from the AVEVA Electrical Equipment Treeview or Equipment List.

• Auto create CBDs by dragging cables from the AVEVA Electrical Cable Schedule.

• CBDs are fully interactive with the database enabling editing of cables, equipment and terminations from the diagram.

• Export CBDs to AutoCAD (AutoCAD license required).

• Add new equipment and cables to the project database and drag and drop cable ends to reconnect (updating Cable Schedule).

Reports

• Cable Schedule (user defined layout) including export to Excel, XPS and PDF.

• Cable Bill of Materials.

• Cable Gland Bill Of Materials.

• Cable Gland Adapter Bill of Materials.

• Cable Drum Schedule.

• Ferrule Numbers (by Equipment/Terminals), including export to Excel.

• Termination Reports (print or saved as PDF).

Change Management

• Report all cables added, deleted and renamed.

• Report detail changes in each field (e.g. Length now 50 was 100).

• Log changes for future reporting (e.g. Cable No changed: Cable No. 1234 was 4567 etc.).

• Audit Manager enables users to view changes by object type.

User Security Rights

An AVEVA Electrical administrator can set security rights for users to enable/disable access to AVEVA Electrical functionality including:

• Access to AVEVA Electrical application modules - users can be restricted from using any module (license).

• Access to AVEVA Electrical objects can be restricted to read-only (for example, a user cannot add/edit a cable) or no access (so that. the user cannot view a cable).

AVEVA Electrical objects include project entities such as cables, equipment etc. and catalogues, the importing of data etc.

By default, all new projects have the Security Rights features disabled for backward compatibility with earlier versions of AVEVA Electricall. If security is required it must be turned on using the AVEVA Electrical Security Manager. Users must then be allocated to 'Security Groups' such as Engineers and Designers, Read-Only Users etc. Refer to the AVEVA Electrical Security Manager User Guide for more information.