Assign Process Equipment and Process Lines

The Instrument List consists of two grids:

• The main, upper grid displays details of the Instruments in the Project.

• The lower grid displays details of any process items (equipment and lines) assigned to the Instrument currently selected in the upper grid.

Further details of a process item can be viewed by double-clicking on it to open the Edit Process Equipment or Edit Process Lines window. For further information, refer to View Further Process Item Details.

Notes: All details of process items are read-only in Instrumentation Engineer. They can also be viewed in a grid. For further information, refer to Process Equipment and Lines.

Instead of associating actual process items with an Instrument, process data associated with an Instrument alternatively be recorded on an Instrument-by-Instrument basis using the Process Data grid. For further information, refer to Process Data.
However, in this case, if for example a process value (flow rate) of a line is changed, this value must be updated for each and every Instrument that is associated with that line. Whereas if those Instruments were associated with an actual process line item, only a single change to that item would be required.

Switch between displaying equipment and lines in the lower grid by clicking the Associated Process Equipment or Associated Process Lines button. Data in the lower grid cannot be edited in Instrumentation Engineer.

The lower grid can be closed and re-opened by clicking Show Process Items in the Associated Items section of the List Tools - Instruments tab.