Use Equipment Editor to Configure Alarms
- Last UpdatedJul 18, 2023
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Alarms can be added to a Plant SCADA system using the Equipment Editor. This will incorporate the alarms you create into the hierarchical architecture defined for the equipment in your system.
When you define an equipment type in Equipment Editor, you can associate alarms with the items it includes. These alarms are passed through to each instance of the equipment type, and the required alarm tags are generated when an equipment update is run. Any changes to an equipment type can also be instantiated across all existing instances of the associated equipment.
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UNINTENDED EQUIPMENT OPERATION On updating the Equipment Name or Equipment Item for an alarm, the update will not be reflected on the client side until the alarm servers have been restarted. The reload procedure will indicate a reload error on Runtime Manager. Reloadlog.dat and Syslog.dat of the server process will show the details of the unsupported changes. You can use this information to revert the changes, or restart all servers after deploying your updated project. Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage. |
Example
The following example shows the Equipment Editor displaying the configuration for an equipment type named "Motor".
The "FailStart" item includes a digital alarm as one of its elements, and the Alarm Tag property is defined as follows:
{equipment.tagprefix}_FAILSTART
An instance of this equipment type named "Example_Motor" is created.
The Tag Prefix property (which is referenced by the Alarm Name property in the associated equipment type) is defined as "MTR". This means a digital alarm called "MTR_FAILSTART" will be generated when an equipment update is run.
The Digital Alarms grid will display the corresponding alarm record.
Alarm properties generated by the Equipment Editor that are read-only appear as gray text, which indicates that they cannot be manually updated in Plant SCADA Studio.
Note: You can also associate defined alarms with equipment using Plant SCADA Studio. See Associate an Alarm with Equipment.