Create an alternate plant breakdown structure (PBS) - SmartPlant Foundation - Version 2019 (10.0) - Administration & Configuration

In an integrated environment, engineering data is organized using a plant breakdown structure (PBS). For example, a PBS for organizing plant data might be plant/area/system/subsystem or plant/area/unit.

When you install and configure SPO/E Core on top of SmartPlant Foundation, the PBS hierarchy defined in the SPO/E Core schema is used to create the PBS hierarchy in the SmartPlant Foundation Desktop Client. This PBS hierarchy is communicated to integrated authoring tools when the PBS is published by SmartPlant Foundation and the authoring tools retrieve it.

You may choose to use the default PBS hierarchy as defined in the SPO/E Core schema, or you may implement a new PBS based on your specific requirements using the Schema Editor.

For more information on PBS hierarchy and plant naming guidelines, see PBS hierarchy and Plant Naming Guidelines.

Prerequisites for creating an alternate PBS

Before creating an alternate PBS, ensure that following prerequisite software is installed on your system:

• Compatible version of SmartPlant Foundation.

• Compatible version of SPO SANTA.

The following work process diagram explains the process of creating an alternate PBS in SPO/E Core:

What do you want to do?

• Remove the existing PBS

• Check out the CMF file

• Define a custom PBS hierarchy from an existing template

• Define a custom PBS hierarchy from a new template

• Check in the CMF and load schema changes

• Generate component schema files

• Generate authoring schema and load files

• Load alternate PBS objects

• Create a new plant structure

• Associate a vault with the new plant

• Register and publish the PBS

• Create relationships between tags and the new PBS

• Modify the existing tag to PBS relationships

• Generate the SPO/E Core load files

• Load the SPO/E Core load files

• Configure PBS related display items on the form section

• Update the ENS definition for tags

• Update the work package publish method