Equipment References

Equipment references define an association between two pieces of equipment or items on equipment. They create relationships in your equipment definitions that extend beyond those that occur intrinsically within the equipment hierarchy.

Using equipment reference browse functions, you can track, group and display information for equipment and its referenced equipment in one interface at runtime.

For example, you could create a pop up for a pump that monitors the following:

• The flow of the pump.

• The pump's power and energy usage.

• The pump's running status.

When an anomaly is identified on the pump, the operator may need to look at other pieces of equipment to determine the cause. This could include the following:

• The low level alarm on the sump from which the pump is pumping.

• The level of the tank that the pump is filling.

• The position of the inlet and drain valves.

You can add multiple equipment references from the pump to these associated pieces of equipment. For example, you could create an equipment reference from the pump to the alarm on the source sump. At runtime, when the operator is viewing the information for this pump, they will be able to view the status of the low-level alarm on the sump as well.

Equipment references are defined in the Equipment view of the System Model activity. See Define Equipment References for more information.

You can use equipment references to configure interlocks in a Situational Awareness Project. See Interlocks for more information.

See Also

Configure Interlocks

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