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The following tasks are used frequently when you manage fieldbus brick assemblies and apparatuses for your Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus systems.

Create a Fieldbus Brick Assembly

When designing your Foundation Fieldbus or Profibus system, you need to create a fieldbus brick assembly. A fieldbus brick assembly is a composite object that consists of a wiring equipment item (fieldbus brick) and an apparatus group. An apparatus group constitutes an apparatus strip (that is, a terminal strip) with a number of apparatuses created according to a selected apparatus configuration. When creating a fieldbus brick, you can define power supply requirements and current consumption. Note that if there are several apparatuses under a fieldbus brick, the power supply requirements and current consumption values are common to all the existing apparatuses belonging to that fieldbus brick. Therefore, changing an electric property values affects all the apparatuses that exist under that fieldbus brick.

We recommend that first you create your equipment in the Reference Explorer so that you have as many typical configurations as possible. Then, you can copy these typical configurations to the Domain Explorer and this way create numerous fieldbus bricks on the fly.

Configure a Fieldbus Apparatus

To create a fieldbus brick assembly, you must have a predefined apparatus group configuration. An apparatus group constitutes an apparatus strip (that is, a terminal strip) with a number of apparatuses created according to a selected apparatus configuration. When defining an apparatus configuration, you define the apparatus profile (name, description, manufacturer, and model), the number of apparatuses, the apparatus terminal configuration, and the position numbering.