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SmartPlant Foundation / SDx Version
10
SmartPlant Markup Plus Version
10.0 (2019)
Smart Review Version
2020 (15.0)

Most of the commands that provide access to SmartPlant functionality exist in the SmartPlant common user interface. You have access to the common user interface through commands in the authoring tools.

In the Desktop Client, you can use the commands on the SmartPlant menu to interact with the integrated environment, including publishing and retrieving data and comparing the design basis.

In addition to the Plant Breakdown Structure (PBS) documents that SmartPlant Foundation publishes, it can also publish instrument and process data sheets as well as items lists, such as equipment lists and instrument master lists.

SmartPlant Enterprise integration methods

SmartPlant Enterprise offers integration options that address the needs of your engineering enterprise. By integrating the SmartPlant applications, you can share and reuse plant information across engineering disciplines and over the life cycle of a plant. SmartPlant Enterprise offers the following types of application integration.

  • Full Integration - Provides a complete tool integration and information management system using SmartPlant Foundation.

  • Basic Integration - Provides complete tool integration and limited information management capabilities using SmartPlant Basic Integrator.

  • Direct Integration - Provides tool-to-tool data transfer without using SmartPlant Foundation or SmartPlant Basic Integrator.

SmartPlant Basic Integrator

Basic integration provides managed data exchange among SmartPlant Enterprise authoring tools using SmartPlant Basic Integrator. The publish and retrieve capabilities of basic integration are the same as the publish and retrieve capabilities of full integration, except that the published data is not loaded into the SmartPlant Foundation data repository for viewing and navigating. When you publish documents using basic integration, the SmartPlant Basic Integrator components load only the document metadata into SmartPlant Foundation. SmartPlant Basic Integrator cannot load published data.

Licensing determines the features available to SmartPlant Basic Integrator. SmartPlant Basic Integrator allows one concurrent user (named in perpet.dat) to access the SmartPlant Foundation Desktop Client.

Consolidated Data Warehouse

The Consolidated Data Warehouse (CDW) is an alternative to shared object technology, linking together all data published by the tools and exposing that data in the data warehouse. If you want to implement Consolidated Data Warehouse, see How to Configure the CDW for further information.

Intercompany Collaboration 2 (ICC2)

Using standard integration, you can publish from an authoring tool to a SmartPlant Foundation plant. Intercompany Collaboration 2 (ICC2) extends that functionality and allows you to revise and publish documents in a project configuration in a tool to either the plant or a project configuration in SmartPlant Foundation. With ICC2, owner operators can find and manage inconsistencies across projects or disciplines within projects, such as:

  • Data inconsistencies across schematics tools

  • Project scope inconsistencies across schematics tools

  • Overlaps in scopes across projects

For this release, you can use ICC2 to revise and publish to the plant or a project in that plant from Smart P&ID, Smart Instrumentation, Smart Electrical, or any SmartPlant Foundation authoring environment, except Excel Adapter. However, you cannot retrieve to or from a project. Support for ICC2 revise and publish capabilities in additional tools, such as Smart 3D, is planned for future releases.