About Equipment

In AVEVA Recipe Management, the term Equipment refers to any piece of machinery in your plant. After you have set up your Equipment, you can assign Formulas and Recipes to them. Equipment can optionally have Capabilities assigned, and you can use the assigned Capabilities to build Recipe Template Procedures.

Equipment can have one of three states: Draft, Approved or Obsolete. You cannot delete Equipment from the system. If a piece of Equipment is no longer in use, you can set its state to Obsolete.

When you click Equipment from the Main menu, the summary page appears. By default, the Summary page shows the Tile view, and the tiles contain the following information about existing Equipment:

• Name

• State

• Number of Parameters

• Number of Capabilities

• User who has it checked out (if applicable)

• Upgrade icon (if applicable)

• Keywords (if applicable): The Keywords icon displays a list of Keywords available for the selected entity when you move the mouse over the Keywords icon. In the case of Grid view, a separate column Keywords displays the lists of Keywords available for the selected entity. The Keywords appear in the order in which their individual positions are set in the Keywords page.

• In the case of Standalone mode, a yellow triangle indicates a missing required IO map references. You cannot approve Equipment with missing required IO references. If you try to approve Equipment with missing required IO references, an error message appears.

The total number of Equipment is shown at the bottom of the screen unless you have used filters to limit the Equipment shown. If you perform a filter operation, the filter icon appears at the bottom of the screen. For more information, see Filtering.

Click the Grid View icon to view the Summary page in the Grid view format.

You can click the tiles (in the Tile view) or click View (in the Grid view) on the Summary page to navigate to the Equipment details page. The Equipment details page provides the following information:

• Name and description

• Version details

• Current state

• Propagate Status

• Capabilities tab

• Parameters tab

• Variables tab

• Users/ Groups tab - On the Users/Groups tab of the Equipment details screen, you can see what users and groups are associated with the Equipment. For information about assigning access to Equipment, see Working with Users/Groups.

• IO Map tab

• Advanced and Basic filter

• More Details icon - Click the More Details icon to view the Author details and the associated Keywords detail. The Keywords are listed here in the order of position they are assigned in the Keywords page during configuration.

  NOTE: The IO Map tab is available only if the AVEVA Recipe Management application is configured in the Standalone mode. If the application is configured for Integrated mode (non-standalone), the IO Map tab is not available. Also, the Variables tab is available only when you are working on a Professional edition of AVEVA Recipe Management.

The Equipment details page also lets you perform the following:

• Set State of an Equipment

• View the Version Difference Report

• View the Upgrade Difference Report

• Check in or Check out or Undo Check out

• Duplicate an existing Equipment

• Upgrade an existing Equipment

• Propagate Status

• Assign the Keywords

  NOTE: You can view the Version Difference report only when version of the selected Equipment is greater than 1. A difference in Equipment version can happen due to the editing of an existing Equipment or because of an upgrade caused by a change in an associated Capability or modification in system's parameter extension.