SmartPlant Enterprise offers integration options that address the needs of your engineering enterprise. By integrating the SmartPlant applications, you can share and reuse plant information across engineering disciplines and over the life cycle of a plant.
This section provides descriptions of the available integration options, followed by diagrams showing the default data exchanges between integrated authoring tools.
Application Integration Options
SmartPlant Enterprise offers the following types of application integration:
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Full Integration - Provides a complete tool integration and information management system using SmartPlant Foundation. See SmartPlant Enterprise Full Integration for more information.
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Basic Integration - Provides complete tool integration and limited information management capabilities using SmartPlant Basic Integrator. See SmartPlant Basic Integration for more information.
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Direct Integration - Provides tool-to-tool data transfer without using SmartPlant Foundation or SmartPlant Basic Integrator. See SmartPlant Direct Integration for more information.
Full, Basic, and Direct Integration are all examples of Application Integration.
The following graphic illustrates the increasing integration and management capabilities available with the progressive levels of integration.
Data Exchange Diagrams
For diagrams presenting the default data integration capabilities for the SmartPlant authoring tools using full and basic integration, see Data Exchange Examples for Integration.