Associate an Alarm with Equipment

To associate an alarm with equipment in Citect Studio, you use the Equipment and Item Name properties:

• The Equipment property defines the equipment association that you can use to reference the alarm
• The Item Name property is associate the alarm with a particular attribute of the equipment.

Note: The steps described here are recommended if you are associating an existing alarm tag with equipment. If you are creating new alarm tags, you should use Equipment Editor to manage your equipment associations. For more information, see Use Equipment Editor to Configure Alarms.

To associate an alarm with equipment:

1. In the System Model activity, select Alarms.
2. On the menu below the Command Bar, select the required alarm type. The alarms list will display in the Grid Editor.
3. Locate the alarm record you would like to update.
4. In the Equipment field displayed in the Property Grid, enter the name of the equipment with which you would like to associate the alarm. You can select an existing equipment definition from the drop-down menu to the right of the field.
5. If required, specify an Item Name for the alarm.
6. Click Save to save the changes to the selected alarm record.

For more information on how to configure a particular alarm type, select one of the following topics:

• Add a Digital Alarm
• Add a Time Stamped Alarm
• Add an Analog Alarm
• Add an Advanced Alarm
• Add a Multi-Digital Alarm
• Add a Time Stamped Digital Alarm
• Add a Time Stamped Analog Alarm

Published June 2018