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Manually Define Equipment

You can manually add equipment definitions to a Citect SCADA project that adhere to an equipment hierarchy.

The hierarchy is created from the names you apply to the equipment you define. If you include a period (.) in a name, it specifies a hierarchy level. You can then use this hierarchy as a way to reference the tags in your project using logical equipment groupings (see Define an Equipment Association with an Existing Tag).

To link equipment to equipment and equipment.items outside the equipment hierarchy, you can create equipment references (see Define Equipment References).

Note: If you are adding equipment to an existing project, it is recommended that you leave the Type field blank. An equipment type is primarily used to generate new tags from Equipment Editor, and this is not required if your tags already exist. If you want to define equipment that is associated with an equipment type, you should use the Equipment Editor instead of Citect Studio(see Use Equipment Editor to Configure Equipment Instances).

To manually define equipment:

  1. In the System Model activity, select Equipment.
  2. On the menu below the Command Bar, select Model.
  3. The list of equipment definitions will display in the Grid Editor.

  4. Add a row to the Grid Editor.
  5. Type the required information in each column, or in the Property Grid (see below for a description of the properties).
  6. Click Save.

The equipment you have defined will now available to associate with the existing tags in your project (see Define an Equipment Association for a Tag).

You can also Manually Define Equipment States for the equipment to support scheduling.

Equipment Properties

Note: Advanced users can use the Project DBF plug-in for Microsoft Excel to edit and save records directly in the EQUIP.DBF file (see Use the Project DBF Add-In to Define Equipment Associations).

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Published June 2018