Group your assets

You can organize your assets into groups using group sets. Group sets are often used to aggregate similar types of units performing the same sort of function. For example, you might have a group set for settling tanks, and another group set for charge tanks, or you might have a group set for low sulfur crude tanks and another group set for high sulfur crude tanks. This is useful for both display and reporting purposes.

Assets are defined as belonging to a particular group, and groups themselves belong to group sets. This allows assets to be categorized depending on the requirements of the model. For example, you might have a group set for the charge tanks for the CDUs. This group set might contain several different groups each representing a different set of tanks used to feed different CDUs.

Manage your group sets

On the Group Sets page, click the Group Sets button in the Group Sets group of the Home ribbon tab to open the Group Sets dialog box.

To create a new group set, click the Add button and enter a name for the new group set.

To remove a group set, select it and click the Delete button.

Manage your groups

Once you have selected a group set from the Group Set list in the Group Sets page, the Groups section lists the groups belonging to the group set.

To create a new group:

1. Click the button next to the Groups area. The Asset Group dialog opens.

   

2. Enter a Name and optionally a Description for the group.

3. Click OK in the Asset Group dialog. The new group is added to the list.

To edit an existing group, select it and click the button.

To delete a group, select it and click the button.

Add assets to groups

Once you have defined a group, you can add one or more assets to it:

4. Select the group in the Groups area.

5. Click the button next to the Assets area. The Select Assets dialog box opens.

   

6. Select the check box next to each asset you want to include. You can also click the All and None buttons to include or exclude all the assets belonging to a certain category.

7. Click OK. The assets you have selected are added to the group and appear in the Assets area.

To remove one or more assets from a group, select them in the Assets area and click the button.

Use group sets in charts

Aggregate values for group sets can be added to charts, showing the change in property values over time.

Use group sets in the Tabular pane

Aggregate values for group sets can be included in the Tabular pane. Selected properties are averaged over the time buckets configured for each row in the Tabular pane.

Use group sets in feed blends

You can create feed blends which are optimized across the group set.

Warning: For creating group sets to use in feed blend targeting, it is only possible to target the outputs of process units included in the group set. Therefore, if you want to target the properties of material going into a blender you must include the upstream unit or splitter which feeds this blender (not the blender itself).