Configure Equipment in Plant SCADA Studio

The way you configure equipment in Plant SCADA will initially depend on whether or not your project has existing tags. If you have a project with existing tags, you can use Plant SCADA Studio to associate equipment with your tags (see Define an Equipment Association for a Tag).

Equipment can be manually configured in the System Model activity of Plant SCADA Studio. Here you can perform the following tasks:

• Define Equipment in Plant SCADA Studio

• Define Equipment Types in Plant SCADA Studio

• Define Equipment States in Plant SCADA Studio

• Define Equipment Configuration Parameters in Plant SCADA Studio

• Define Equipment References

• Define Equipment Runtime Parameters

• Update Equipment in Plant SCADA Studio.

Note: If you are starting a new project (or adding a new area or process to an existing project) you can use the Equipment Editor to generate tags (see Equipment Editor.

Associate Existing Tags with an Equipment Hierarchy

Plant SCADA allows you to build an Equipment Hierarchy into a project that is already configured to include tags, alarms, trends, and so on.

When you build an equipment hierarchy into an existing system, you create a way to reference your tags using logical groupings that may reflect geographical areas or functional processes.

Associating equipment with tags in an existing project is a two-step process:

1. Define the required equipment.

   To achieve this, manually add the required equipment definitions to Equipment list in the System Model activity (see Define Equipment in Plant SCADA Studio).

2. Associate tags with the equipment you have defined.

   To achieve this, you set the Equipment property for a tag in the System Model activity (see Define an Equipment Association for a Tag).

You can also define equipment associations for your tags directly in the project database using Microsoft Excel™ (see Use the Project DBF Add-In to Define Equipment Associations).

See Also

Equipment