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The following steps constitute the primary flow of activities when you use Smart Instrumentation to create the detailed wiring and control system data for a Smart Electrical item:

  1. In Smart Electrical, create signals for the items you want to associate with control systems in Smart Instrumentation and publish the data from Smart Electrical. For details, refer to Smart Electrical Welcome to Intergraph Smart® Instrumentation.

    SHARED Tip Smart Electrical publishes the data in an .xml file, which it creates in the plant structure path.

  2. Open Smart Instrumentation and retrieve the data that originated in Smart Electrical. For details, see Retrieve Smart Electrical Data .

  3. Run the tasks that the software generates because of the retrieve. For details, see Run Tasks from the To Do List.

    • Smart Instrumentation automatically creates tag numbers from the retrieved data and identifies them as Smart Electrical tags.

    • As an alternative to creating signals in Smart Electrical and then publishing them, you can create the Electrical tags directly in Smart Instrumentation. For details, see Create Electrical Tags.

  4. View the Smart Electrical tags created in Smart Instrumentation. For details, see Viewing Electrical Tag Numbers.

  5. Associate the Smart Electrical tags with loop numbers where needed; the software populates the loop number data to Smart Electrical later.

Associate the Smart Electrical tags with electrical equipment where needed. For details, see Associate Electrical Signals with Equipment.

  1. Create the necessary panels and cables and make the connections needed to propagate the signal to the DCS or PLC that is used to define the control system tag relationship. For details, see Create Wiring Items for Smart Electrical Signals.

    SHARED Tip If a signal is associated with a circuit in Smart Electrical, it inherits its power distribution board (PDB) item tag as an associated field and is considered as a pre-assigned signal for the PDB cabinet. For circuit signals, Smart Instrumentation automatically creates a cabinet with the name of the power distribution board to which the circuit was connected in Smart Electrical. For other signals, you need to create device panels manually in Smart Instrumentation. For details, see Create a Local Signal for Electrical Tags.

  2. Publish the data to Smart Electrical. This creates an .xml document containing Smart Instrumentation data such as the control system configuration, I/O assignment, PLC I/O card and channel, instrument tags, loop number, and so forth. For details, see Publish Data for Smart Electrical.

    The software creates the file in the path: <Smart Instrumentation home folder>\XML\IO Assignment_data.xml.

  3. Retrieve (import) the configured data in Smart Electrical.

  4. Display the I/O assignment data in a Smart Electrical schematic by including in the schematic macros related to Smart Electrical signal data. For details, see .Smart Instrumentation Macro Structure

SHARED Tip In Enhanced Report Utility reports and CAD drawings for a signal that applies to a circuit, the loop macros cannot retrieve main or associated electrical equipment names and types because the signal is not directly linked with these items. Furthermore, it is possible for a circuit to feed more than one item of equipment, and this is incompatible with the way that macros function, where each macro can retrieve only a single data value at a time. Likewise, if a signal is linked to an item of electrical equipment, you cannot use macros to retrieve circuit data.

  • You can repeat this procedure as many times as you want to; Smart Instrumentation recognizes new, modified, and deleted data that is published from Smart Electrical.

  • The data is owned by the application that created it. If you modify or delete the data in the application that does not own it, the next time you retrieve the data from the owner application, it overwrites any modified data, or reinserts data if it was deleted. A specific data property usually belongs to one or other of the applications; however, the Sys I/O type property is owned by both applications and in this case the software overwrites the value in whichever application you retrieve the data.