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Integrated Plant Data Viewing
As an example of use by the O/O, a specific seal on a control
SmartPlant® Explorer enables you to view, navigate, query, and
report on live PDS®, SmartPlant Instrumentation, and SmartPlant
P&ID design data – all through a convenient and completely integrated Web-based environment – without the need to deploy the
associated authoring tools to each desktop.
SmartPlant Explorer offers a common, configurable, and unified
interface to present design data in the context of your needs.
An invaluable solution, SmartPlant Explorer essentially creates a
simple, and easily accessible, website that enables you to directly
access multiple existing plant databases around the world without
keeps presenting problems. Maintenance personnel use SmartPlant
Explorer to access the P&ID and run a report on all control valves
of that type. Next, the user can navigate over to those control
valves to find the vendor data defined by SmartPlant Instrumentation
and work on corrective action with the vendor. During the replacement and planning of that process, the valves can easily be located
in the 3D model using the links between SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant
Instrumentation, and PDS. Regardless of the application or user,
the navigation, viewing, and reporting techniques are identical
using SmartPlant Explorer.
any risk of accidental modification. The software supports the entire
Secure data with access control
plant life cycle with reliable and usable information.
SmartPlant Explorer ensures that your plant data is distributed
Reduce project costs by providing ready access to data, drawings,
in a secure way on the Internet. Access rights are set up by the
and reports from design tools without the need to deploy authoring
products to every desktop. The user only needs Microsoft Internet
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Explorer® – no software installation is required at the client side.
Following Microsoft interface standards, SmartPlant Explorer
provides even your infrequent or untrained users with access to
the data they need to get their jobs done without any knowledge
of the underlying applications. If you can use the Internet, you can
view the latest plant engineering data.
Benefits for O/Os and EPCs
SmartPlant Explorer is appropriate for use by both the engineering,
procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor and owner
operator (O/O). As an example of use by the EPC, the project
manager accesses the P&ID through SmartPlant Explorer to
learn the status of project progress. The manager then runs the
SmartPlant P&ID line and equipment list reports and the SmartPlant
Instrumentation Instrument Index from inside SmartPlant Explorer.
From the P&ID, the project manager can select the critical process
lines to see if and how complete the model is in the 3D environment.
administrator or inherited from the authoring tool using Microsoft
Transaction Server (MTS) roles. Roles can be set up to control the
access and interfaces available to a group. Individuals assigned to
roles are then allowed to see certain types of data or run specific
reports or actions. Depending on how it is configured, the user is
presented with a tailored interface. The data is just a URL away.
Finding data with one mouse-click
SmartPlant Explorer offers user-definable Favorites to enable the
casual user to access commonly viewed data with just one click
of the mouse. Reports, P&ID drawings, 3D models, and more can
all be pre-defined in a Favorite. Favorites provide fast access to upto-date information for design, construction, or operational purposes.
Comprehensive reporting capabilities
A comprehensive reporting tool, SmartPlant Explorer supports
generation of several different types of reports – on demand –
from live data. These reports include:
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