Equipment References

System Model > Equipment > Equipment References

The term "equipment reference" refers to the link you create between a piece of equipment and/or items of another piece of equipment in your Citect SCADA project. Using equipment references you can create relationships with equipment and equipment.items outside of the equipment hierarchy. With equipment reference browse functions, you can track, group and display information for the equipment and referenced equipment in one interface at runtime.

One example of where you may use an equipment reference in your project is on a pop up for a pump. On this pop up you may monitor the following:

the flow of the pump,
the pump's power and energy usage, and
the pump's running status.

When an anomaly is identified on the pump, the operator may need to look at other pieces of equipment to determine the cause of the anomaly and how to fix it, such as the following:

The low level alarm on the sump that the pump is pumping from
The level of the tank that the pump is pumping into.
The position of the inlet and drain valves.

You can add multiple equipment references from the pump to the items, and/or equipment mentioned above. For example, create an equipment reference from the Pump to the alarm on the sump that the pump is pumping from, so that at runtime when the operator is viewing the information for this pump, the operator will be able to view the status of the low level alarm on the sump as well.

You manually define Equipment References in the System Model activity. See Define Equipment References for more information.

Use equipment references to configure interlocks in your project. See Information zone - Interlocks for more information.