Off-site projects handle several types of information, as summarized in the following table.
Information Type |
Description |
Examples |
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Plant items |
Data that you create or import into the Electrical Index and use to make electrical relationships in the Electrical Engineer. |
Motors and other loads, panels, cables, cableways. |
Reference schema items |
Template data used to set standards for work performed in the plant and to improve the performance of the plant creation by using a predefined set of data. These items appear in the Reference Data Explorer. |
Reference cables, typical blocks, cableway components |
Reference data (metadata) |
Data that defines the structure or presentation of plant and reference schema items. |
Data dictionary, drawing templates, plant reports. |
Information Handling
The following table summarizes how the software handles these different types of information at various stages of the workflow.
Workflow Stage |
Information Type |
Method of Handling |
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Initial data scoping and transfer to off-site plant |
Plant items |
User specifies which data to scope in Smart Electrical. User creates package in Smart Engineering Manager for transferring the data to the off-site plant. |
Reference schema items |
The software copies all reference schema items in the host to the package that the user creates for transferring the plant items. |
|
Reference data (metadata) |
The software copies all metadata in the host to the package that the user creates for transferring the plant items. |
|
Data re-scoping |
Plant items |
User can specify additional data to re-scope in Smart Electrical but cannot de-scope existing items that were previously scoped. User creates package in Smart Engineering Manager for transferring the data to the off-site plant. |
Reference schema items |
The software re-scopes all new reference schema items related to the plant items that the user has re-scoped. The software includes these reference schema items in the package that the user creates for transferring the plant items. |
|
Reference data (metadata) |
No changes to metadata when re-scoping. |
|
Transfer of data back to host |
Plant items |
User specifies which items to transfer in Smart Electrical by merging those items in the off-site plant. User creates packages in Smart Engineering Manager for transferring the data to the host. |
Reference schema items |
The software merges all new reference schema items related to the plant items in the package that returns to the host. |
|
Reference data (metadata) |
If user edited metadata in the off-site plant, the user must run the Reference Data Synchronization (RDS) Manager for updating the metadata in the host. |
When saving a project for reloading into a plant or saving a plant for merging in the host, Smart Engineering Manager copies to the host or off-site plant all new reference schema items of the following types only:
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Reference cables
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Typical blocks
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Typical schematics
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Cableway components
Existing reference schema items and other types of reference schema items remain unchanged.