You can define and store the values of electrical equipment and buses for each operating case. For example, an electrical motor in your plant can have different brake power, demand factor, or coincidence factor values for different operating cases. After switching to another active operating case, you can generate various reports and calculate load summaries based on the values in the active operating case.
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In addition to the following procedure, you can manage operating case data for plant items using the EDE. The software is shipped with predefined layouts (one layout for each item type) and filters designed specifically for this purpose. This way you can create various tables containing operating case data that can be edited and copied as required.
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You can use Import Manager to import plant item values from an external source and insert these values into a specific operating case in your plant. This way, you can quickly populate plant item values for various cases that exist in your plant. For details, see Importing Operating Case Data in the Import Manager help.
Do the following to manage the data of individual electrical equipment items and buses in your plant:
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In Smart Electrical, do one of the following:
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Right-click a required plant in the Electrical Index and then on the shortcut menu, select Manage Plant Operating Cases.
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Select a required plant in the Electrical Index and then select Actions > Manage Plant Operating Cases.
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Open the Common Properties dialog for the required electrical equipment item and select the Manage Operating Cases command button.
For a bus, open the Bus Load Association dialog and select the required bus.
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On the Manage Operating Cases dialog, select in the appropriate cell to edit and type a new value.
You can copy and paste entire rows, selected cells, or individual cells by selecting
the row or cells, selecting Copy and then Paste.
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Select Apply to store the new values in the database.
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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.
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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.
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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.