The Smart Electrical Interface allows you to exchange data between the two applications using the following document types:
Power elements
You initially define power supply requirements in Smart Instrumentation for tag numbers and for any panel type except for junction boxes and device panels. On publishing the data from Smart Instrumentation, Smart Electrical uses the published power supply data to create instruments from Smart Instrumentation tag number data and cabinets from panel data in Smart Instrumentation. You can then publish the data and retrieve it back to Smart Instrumentation with Smart Electrical PDB information.
Signals
Signal data can originate in Smart Electrical or in Smart Instrumentation. You can define signal data for generators, battery banks, converting equipment, loads, control stations, any type of circuit, and disconnect equipment. On retrieving all Smart Electrical signals, Smart Instrumentation creates special electrical tags, for which you can perform wiring and I/O control system tag assignments. After the wiring is complete, you can publish the data back to Smart Electrical for further processing, and use it to display PLC or other host I/O data in Smart Electrical schematics.
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The documents published by the two applications do not contain the same properties. For example, instrument and cabinet data includes power supply parameters such as rated voltage, full load current, and so forth, which originate in Smart Instrumentation. However, Smart Electrical only publishes PDB/Cell/Circuit information. Similarly, Smart Instrumentation publishes host data for signals that originate in Smart Electrical, but Smart Electrical does not publish the host data back to Smart Instrumentation. For this reason, if, in Smart Electrical, you change data values that originated from Smart Instrumentation, you should update those values accordingly in Smart Instrumentation, and vice versa.
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If you publish signals in Smart Electrical for circuits that feed items other than loads, converting equipment, generators, battery banks, instruments, or cabinets, then on retrieving the items in Smart Instrumentation and running the tasks, Smart Instrumentation does not display the associated items.