Principles of Creating Device Panels - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

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Smart Instrumentation offers the following options for device panel creation:

  • Creation of an individual device panel in the Domain Explorer. This device panel will not be associated with any instrument and will not have a device cable.

  • Creation of a device panel for an existing instrument and configure its connection manually or automatically.

  • Creation of a new instrument with an associated device panel and device cable. You can configure the connection automatically or manually as required.

Smart Instrumentation provides you with an easy to use mechanism to create device panels and their wiring directly from the Instrument Index module. Alternatively, you can create the connection information manually in the Device Panels window in the Wiring module, including the terminals, the cable, and the connections between them. The Device Panels window can help create the connection information needed in most cases where a single cable is connected to the terminals of the instrument.

Before creating a device panel with wiring information, you need to define a number of reference items. These reference items are the panel, cable, and connection type. You can also define appropriate instrument type profiles that include wiring definitions. When creating an instrument based on a defined instrument type profile, the software automatically checks if the instrument that is being added needs to have a device panel. Based on the given default settings, the software will create the panel, the cable, and the connections between them. Also, Smart Instrumentation automatically propagates the signals and names the device panels and cables according to the appropriate naming conventions defined in the Administration module. If no naming convention for device cables has been defined, the software names the cable after the instrument, when the name is prefixed with "C-".