Equipment Editor

Equipment Editor is a tool designed to generate tags in a Citect SCADA project that adhere to an equipment hierarchy.

To open the Equipment Editor:

1. In the System Model activity, select Equipment.
2. On the Command Bar, click Equipment Editor.

The Equipment Editor interface includes two different views:

• Equipment Types
• Equipment.

These two views are accessible via the tabs along the left edge of the Equipment Editor window, or via the View menu.

The View menu also includes a command to Refresh the Equipment Editor interface.

You can work with equipment in three easy steps:

1. Create equipment types.

The items you include will define the tags, alarms and trends required to support each associated equipment instance.

2. Create equipment instances.

The location of an instance in the equipment hierarchy and its field values provide the information required to create the tags, alarms, trends and states defined in the associated equipment type.

3. Run an equipment update.

This generates the related configuration records required to support each equipment instance.

The Equipment Editor also supports the following functionality:

• Equipment Property Referencing — syntax you can use to pass property values from an equipment instance to an equipment type
• Custom Parameters — named placeholders that allow you to identify and associate values with a piece of equipment.

You can also use the Equipment Editor to Link a Genie to an Equipment Type.

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Published June 2018