The following steps constitute the primary flow of activities when you use Smart Instrumentation to define power supply requirements for instruments and cabinets:
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In Smart Instrumentation, press F7 to open the Domain Explorer.
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Expand the appropriate folder to display instruments or panels.
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Right-click the instrument or panel, and on the shortcut menu, select Properties.
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On the General tab of the dialog for the selected item, select Requires power supply.
If the cabinet originated from PDB information in Smart Electrical, the power supply data for that cabinet belongs to Smart Electrical. In this case, entering power supply data in Smart Instrumentation results in the creation of a task in Smart Electrical that generates an error when run. To prevent publishing of power supply data in this
case, make sure that you clear Requires power supply.
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Select the Power Supply tab and enter your electrical load data.
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Select OK to close the dialog.
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Publish the data to Smart Electrical. This creates an .xml document containing all Smart Instrumentation data in the current plant such as the control system configuration, I/O assignment, PLC I/O card and channel, instrument tags, loop number, and so forth.
The software creates the file in the path: <Smart Instrumentation home folder>\XML\IO Assignment_data.xml.
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Retrieve the data in Smart Electrical and run the tasks there to create instruments and cabinets.
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After assigning a PDB and circuit for each load, publish the data from Smart Electrical.
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In Smart Instrumentation, retrieve the Smart Electrical data. For details, see Retrieve Smart Electrical Data.
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Run the tasks that the software generates because of the retrieve. For details, see Run Tasks from the To Do List.
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View the tag numbers or cabinets in Smart Instrumentation and note that power distribution board data appears on the Power Supply tab of the appropriate dialog.
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The power distribution board data is also available for displaying in loop drawings.
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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.
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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.