Concurrent Engineering allows you to create, view, modify, and delete changes within a particular plant configuration, without
affecting the as-built data. These long-term transactions may span days, weeks, or
months, while controlling changes to the data and the original data.
To initiate a change, the user claims data from a plant into a project and makes changes,
such as updating items, deleting items, and creating new items in the project. When
complete, the data is merged back into the plant.
To make changes in a project, or lower configuration, items or documents must first
be claimed or revised into that configuration. Items can be implicitly claimed from
the plant into an active project configuration when running commands that update these
objects. SmartPlant Foundation can be configured for explicit claiming to force all
users to claim objects before editing them. Or, items can be claimed exclusively preventing
them from being modified in another parallel configuration. You can configure SmartPlant
Foundation to force all users to work in exclusive mode.
When working in non-exclusive mode, parallel changes can be made to the same item.
As a result, the design basis of a claim may be changed by data merged from another
parallel project or by a change made to the design basis itself within the plant configuration.
This makes the design basis of the first claim now out of date and requires that conflicts
be resolved prior to merging another project into the plant.
Claim dialog box
Allows you to claim objects in a lower configuration, such as a project, without impacting
the as-built configuration.
Mandatory objects
Name - Displays the name of the objects claimed.
Description - Displays a description of the objects.
Class Definition - Displays the class definition for the objects.
Status - Displays the current status of the object.
Previously Claimed To Configuration - Displays whether the object has been previously claimed to a configuration.
Optional objects
Name - Displays the name of any tags related to a system that has been claimed and allows
you to select which tags to claim with the system.
Description - Displays a description of the objects.
Class Definition - Displays the class definition for the objects.
Status - Displays the current status of the object.
Previously Claimed To Configuration - Displays whether the object has been previously claimed to a configuration.
Collapse All - Collapses the object and all relationships to the highest object level for display.
Merge dialog box
Allows you to merge objects changed at the project level back to the as-built plant.
Mandatory objects
Name - Displays the name of the objects claimed.
Description - Displays a description of the objects.
Class Definition - Displays the class definition for the objects.
Status - Displays the current status of the object.
Rel Name - Displays the name of the relationship definition.
Name1 - Displays the name of the object that appears at the first end of the relationship
definition.
Name2 - Displays the name of the object that appears at the second end of the relationship
definition.
Collapse All - Collapses the object and all relationships to the highest object level for display.
Unclaim dialog box
Allows you to release objects from the control of a project.
Mandatory objects:
Name - Displays the name of the objects claimed.
Description - Displays a description of the objects.
Class Definition - Displays the class definition for the objects.
Status - Displays the current status of the object.
Rel Name - Displays the name of the relationship definition.
Name1 - Displays the name of the object that appears at the first end of the relationship
definition.
Name2 - Displays the name of the object that appears at the second end of the relationship
definition.
Collapse All - Collapses the object and all relationships to the highest object level for display.
Mergeable item summary dialog box
Displays a mergeable item summary of objects in a lower configuration or project that
are ready to be merged up to a higher configuration or plant.
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Name - Displays the name of the claimed object being compared to the as-built data.
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Class Def - Displays the class definition name for each of the objects.
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High config value - Displays the value of the claimed object in the as-built plant.
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Low config value - Displays the value of the claimed object in the project.
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Value as Claimed - Displays the value of the object at the time it was claimed.
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Status - Displays the status of the object and in which configuration it was changed.
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Relationship - Displays the name of the relationship definition.
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End item 1 - Displays the name of the relationship definition End 1 Item.
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End Item 2 - Displays the name of the relationship definition End 2 Item.
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