Prerequisites for Exporting Data to Masoneilan ValSpeQ - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

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Before being able to export data, the predefined import links for Masoneilan ValSpeQ must be available. To make the links available, you need to import the appropriate system interfaces into Smart Instrumentation from the Administration module (for details, see Import System Interfaces).

Before you start exporting data, you need to enter the required process data (for example, Tag Name and Service) in the appropriate process data sheets. Your choice of the process data parameter values will determine your subsequent selections of the valve sizing data such as Body Size and Rated Cv.

At this stage, you can also define process data parameters specific to the selected control valve (for example, Leakage). (These parameters can be viewed in the Additional Properties window in the Process Data module.)

For the Export to Masoneilan - Find Items dialog box to function correctly, you must have created a query and generated from the query an EDE containing at least the following Item Types:

  • Instrument - (with relation to)

  • Process Data (Shared) - (with relation to)

  • Process Data Control Valve

A template QBF (Query Builder File) containing the required Item Types is available for import to the Query Builder folder. You can then, if you want, add further attributes and generate an EDE. The generated EDE is then used by the software to locate items suitable for export. The QBF file can be found in the Queries folder (not to be confused by the Queries folder found in the Reference Explorer) located in the Smart Instrumentation root folder. The file is called ExportInterfacesFistVueMasonailanFlowserve.qbf.

For information on importing a QBF in to Smart Instrumentation, see Import a Query Builder File.

  • It is from this EDE that the instruments are taken for export to Masoneilan ValSpeQ.

  • The software searches for an EDE that matches the criteria for exporting to Masoneilan ValSpelQ and displays the EDE name in the Find Items dialog box. For more information on working with EDEs, see the following; Working with EDE Views.

  • If filters were applied to the EDE, only those instruments left after filtration are exported.

  • To view your data correctly after importing to Masoneilan ValSpeQ, you should also include the instrument attribute Specification Form in your query. You can then filter your EDE results according to Form Number 1 or 75.

Also, consider the following issues:

  • When exporting data to Masoneilan ValSpeQ, the Smart Instrumentation export feature automatically converts the Smart Instrumentation system and unit of measure codes to the appropriate system and unit of measure codes used in Masoneilan ValSpeQ, for example: °C in Smart Instrumentation is converted to deg C in Masoneilan ValSpeQ. However, since Smart Instrumentation contains additional units of measure, some Smart Instrumentation units of measure may not have parallel values in Masoneilan ValSpeQ and therefore will not be accessible in Masoneilan ValSpeQ for sizing calculations. In this case an appropriate message is displayed and a note is added in the Error.log file (located in the same folder where you saved the ASCII file).

  • Fields in Smart Instrumentation and in Masoneilan ValSpeQ differ in length and Smart Instrumentation fields may be truncated if longer than the corresponding fields in Masoneilan ValSpeQ. Therefore, you need to make sure that the truncated data does not contain sizing data which is required in Masoneilan ValSpeQ.

  • When exporting vapor pressure or critical pressure values, you must specify the units of measure of these quantities as absolute (A) and not gage (G) in the specification sheet.