Equipment

In Wiring Manager, the Equipment View provides a a hierarchical view of all instrumentation equipment and field devices grouped by Plant Area and Location type.

From the Equipment View, you can create equipment and field devices, as well as new Plant Areas, buildings, and equipment rooms. For further information, refer to Add Area, Buildings, Equipment Rooms and Vendor Packages, Add Cabinets and Junction Boxes, and Add Field Devices. See also Edit and Rename Items in the Equipment View and Copy Equipment.

Equipment can also be viewed in a grid format in the Equipment List.

Wiring Manager includes a facility for designing and viewing internal equipment component layouts in a graphical user interface. For further information, refer to Equipment Layout for further information.

Terminal Strips, Din Rails and Devices can be added and edit both from the Equipment Layout interface and the Equipment View. For further information, refer to Terminal Strips, Earth Bars, Din Rails, Devices, I/O, Modules, Compartments and Group Labels.

Facilities are provided to add major equipment to the project in bulk using a wizard. For further information, refer to Create or Import Multiple Major Equipment.

Equipment may also be added by importing from an Excel spreadsheet. For further information, refer to Import Equipment from Excel.

In Wiring Manager, reports on equipment termination reports can be produced. For further information, refer to Termination Reports.

Wiring Manager includes facilities to attach external documents/files to equipment tags and for the viewing of these attached documents. For further information, refer to Attachments (External Documents).

Wiring Manager includes Equipment Catalogs which used to define standard equipment items and their terminal arrangements. These catalog items can be used in the creation of project equipment. For further information, refer to Equipment Catalogs.