Integration standardizes and improves the communication among the various authoring tools you use in the course of designing, constructing, and operating a plant. Managing data exchange among these authoring tools enables you to share and re-use plant information throughout the plant life-cycle.
Depending on the version of your software, data exchange is managed by the following applications:
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SmartPlant Foundation (SPF) for Integration 1.0 (all Smart Engineering Manager versions). See Integration using SmartPlant Foundation (Integration 1.0).
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HxGN SDx2 for Integration 2.0 (Smart Engineering Manager 13 and later). See Integration using HxGN SDx2
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(Integration 2.0).
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Integration with Aspen Basic Engineering™ (ABE) (Smart Engineering Manager 12 and later). See Registering a Plant with Aspen Basic Engineering.
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A plant can only be registered with one of the applications: Integration with (SPF) or Integration with HxGN SDx2). After you register a plant with one of these applications, the Integration menu options for the other application are disabled.
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You can register the same plant with ABE and either of the other integration applications.