Instrument Catalog

Many instruments created for a Project will have very similar attributes. For example, there may be dozens of control valves with very little difference between them except for their tag numbers.

To reduce the amount of repetitive data entry that specifying these items this would otherwise entail, a catalog of User-defined instrument definitions can be set up. When an instrument is being created, selected data from a catalog definition can be copied to the new instrument. This definition can be copied to all the instruments with similar attributes, for example, similar control valves.

For information on the procedure for copying data from a catalog instrument, refer to Manually Add a Tag to the Instrument List.