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Intergraph SmartPlant Engineering Manager Installation and Upgrade

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SmartPlant Foundation / SDx Version
Smart Electrical Version
2015 R1 (7.1)
Smart Instrumentation Version
(none)
Smart P&ID Version
7.1 (2014 R1)
Smart Engineering Manager Version
7.2 (2014 R2)

Integration standardizes and improves the communication among the various authoring tools you use in the course of designing, constructing, and operating a plant.  SmartPlant integration manages data exchange among these authoring tools, which enables sharing and re-use of plant information throughout the plant life-cycle.  SmartPlant Foundation acts as a repository for data and a medium through which information is shared among other tools, such as Aspen Basic Engineering, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Electrical, and SmartPlant 3D.

Most of the commands that provide access to SmartPlant integration functionality exist in the common user interface available on the SmartPlant menu in Engineering Manager, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Electrical, SmartPlant P&ID, and Drawing Manager.

Registering Tools

Before you can publish and retrieve documents from any of the other authoring tools, such as SmartPlant Electrical or SmartPlant Instrumentation, you must register each plant in SmartPlant P&ID with a SmartPlant Foundation database.  The connection allows SmartPlant P&ID to use the commands on the SmartPlant menu.  A SmartPlant Engineering Manager administrator typically registers a plant.

The software maps a plant and all its projects to a single SmartPlant Foundation URL, which points to one, and only one, SmartPlant Foundation plant database and its projects.  When you use the Register command in any of the authoring tools, you are registering an authoring tool plant with a SmartPlant Foundation URL and plant that you specify.

The system administrator must register each plant in the authoring tool once; this action takes place in SmartPlant Engineering Manager.  After the plant is registered, you can publish and retrieve documents.