Introduction
The Group functionality is very versatile and your imagination is the only limit to its use. But for inspiration we’ve included a few practical scenarios of use. This topic gives you an overview of the scenarios and we also explain why we see the Group as the perfect solution here. If you want to go through the scenarios, simply click the link at the end of the scenario description.
SCENARIO 1: Replication of pump stations
One of the use cases that we imagine will become very popular, is the ability of the Group to replicate similar diagrams. In the Demo configuration we’ve included a Pump Station diagram in the Plants area that we will use to illustrate this functionality.
In the scenario we imagine that we want to replicate two pump station
diagrams based on the above diagram.
We will do this by:
The figure below illustrates what we want to do in the scenario:
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SCENARIO 2: Workgroup approach
The second scenario illustrates how a workgroup of three system designers can work in parallel on the same IGSS configuration. Our example is a production process that is split into the following areas in the configuration:
System designer A takes “Raw materials” and “Mixing”, system designer B takes “Pre-processing” and “Production line” and system designer C takes “Packaging” and “Distribution”. The workgroup sets up a number of guidelines for the project and starts off by creating the templates that they need to share. This would be a process similar to SCENARIO 3.
They will now start work on their individual configurations and in the end they will merge the three configurations into one master configuration. The individual process diagrams are exported into Configuration Group Files (.cgf) and then imported into the master configuration as illustrated below.
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The third scenario shows how you can build up a library of Groups from which you can pick each time you create a new configuration. In the example, we will build three Groups containing object templates. The example also illustrates how you can include a Group in another Group.
We assume that you will be doing numerous configurations where you will always need a few analog and digital templates. Sometimes you need them all, sometimes you only need either the analog or the digital templates.
To cover these three situations, we will create the following three Groups:
The figure below illustrates what we want to do in the scenario.
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