Equipment Types, Hierarchy setup

we are just embarking on a new SCADA project using SCADA 2018 and considering the use of the equipment dbf etc. can someone explain the following:

  • what is the purpose of the equipment hierarchy in the equipment dbf? is a flat structure preferred as opposed to using ISA 95 architecture
  • In the variable dbf, there's an item name field. Can the field be used to specify an item name that does not associate with any equipment type?
  • In the equipment type setup screen, can we create variable tags without specifying the address? can that be populated within the variable.dbf itself after "update equipment" is used?

Thank you

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  • Hi Ignatius,

    Adding onto Stuarts reply, Equipment brings an object oriented design to SCADA. The equipment story is a focal point for our current and future releases and a number of the new features in 2018 will only work with equipment. For example, the SA Library Objects and Alarm Indicator are equipment only based.

    Using Equipment enables:

    • Creating templates for similar equipment to reduce maintenance (templates are optional)
    • Hierarchical Navigation
    • Hierarchical Alarm counting and Filtering
    • Alarm Indicators
    • SA Library Objects
    • Context Based Navigation in the new Workspace
    • Scheduler and State based configuration

    Cheers,

    bradley

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  • Hi Ignatius,

    Adding onto Stuarts reply, Equipment brings an object oriented design to SCADA. The equipment story is a focal point for our current and future releases and a number of the new features in 2018 will only work with equipment. For example, the SA Library Objects and Alarm Indicator are equipment only based.

    Using Equipment enables:

    • Creating templates for similar equipment to reduce maintenance (templates are optional)
    • Hierarchical Navigation
    • Hierarchical Alarm counting and Filtering
    • Alarm Indicators
    • SA Library Objects
    • Context Based Navigation in the new Workspace
    • Scheduler and State based configuration

    Cheers,

    bradley

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