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Smart Electrical allows you to perform bus and PDB load summaries based on various sets of load values. These various sets of load data (referred here to as plant operating cases) provide the ability to analyze the total electrical load consumption of your plant based on different load properties and values. Typically, such operating cases are called Winter, Summer, and so on. You can create and define any number of such operating cases to cover your plant requirements.

Plant operating case management allows you to do the following:

  • Create and define any number of plant operating cases. (Performed in Options Manager)

  • Set one of the existing operating cases as the active case. This is the operating case that the plant is currently switched to. The active case can be any one of the existing operating cases in the plant. After switching to a specific operating case, you can then calculate various load summaries for that operating case (performed in Smart Electrical).

  • Set one of the existing operating cases as the governing case. This is the main operating case that the plant works at most of the time during the design and engineering stage and later during the operational and maintenance stages of the plant.

  • For each operating case, define and store in the database the values of the electrical equipment and buses. in your plant (Performed in Smart Electrical)

  • Generate various load summary reports for the active operating case (performed in Smart Electrical).

Smart Electrical is shipped with a single (base) operating case, which you can rename if needed. All the values and definitions are stored for this case until you switch to another operating case that you create for your plant. Once you add another operating case and define it as the active case, you can delete the base operating case if you no longer need it.

For information about plant operating cases when working with As-Built and projects, see Plant Operating Cases in As-Built and Projects.

For information about plant operating cases when working with the Reference Electrical Engineer, see Rules Governing the Copying of Branches with Data that Includes Operating Cases.

  • When creating a plant item in the Electrical Index, and if the plant item properties that are included in the Manage Operating Cases dialog have default values, these values are set in all the existing operating cases of the current plant. Note that default values are set in the Data Dictionary Manager or the Project Wide Parameters in Options Manager.

  • When creating a plant item in the Electrical Index by dragging an item from the Reference Data Explorer and if the reference item has properties that are included in the Manage Operating Cases dialog , the values that appear in those properties are copied only to the active case of the current plant. All other cases in the plant will contain default values if they exist. If no default values have been set for those properties, all the other operating cases will not contain any values for those properties.

  • When calculating load totals for buses and circuits, the software stores the name of the plant operating case that was used during the latest calculation. The name of this operating case is displayed at the top of the Properties window just above the toolbar and on the Batch Load Association dialog . Note that the Last Calculated Case Name and Last Calculated Case Description properties are available when defining EDE layouts and relevant reports.