Equipment Updates

An equipment update generates the configuration records associated with the equipment instances defined in the Equipment Editor. The records that are generated for each equipment instance are specified by the items and states defined in the associated equipment type.

Note: When you perform an equipment update, any numeric values in your project need to be in a format that matches the current system locale setting. For example, a decimal separator needs to be a comma (,) on systems using French, Russian or Turkish. For this reason, you are not able to run an equipment update for the Example project on some non-English locales.

By default, Plant SCADA will perform an incremental equipment update that only includes equipment and equipment types that have been modified since the last update occurred.

If you disable incremental updates, Plant SCADA will regenerate every tag associated with the equipment hierarchy each time an update is run.

To disable incremental equipment updates:

1. In Plant SCADA Studio, select Options from the Activity Bar. The Options dialog will appear.

2. Locate Incremental equipment update on the Options dialog and clear its check box.

3. Click OK.

   Note: If you deselect the Incremental equipment update program option, an equipment update will take more time to complete. The time required to complete an update may increase significantly if a project includes a large equipment hierarchy.

See Also

Update Equipment in Equipment Editor