ABB S+ Engineering Multi-user engineering

Project administration

The newly integrated S+ Engineering tool allows a very simplistic way of managing automation

projects. Users with their project administration privileges can perform the following activities in

just few clicks.

•  One shot project creation of System, Control,

Device and Electrical engineering

•  User assignments to projects

•  Back-up and Restore of projects

•  Project database maintenance

•  Upgrade of projects from previous versions

Multi-user engineering

Multi-user engineering provides high level of flexibility and efficiency in system configuration,

documentation, commissioning and maintenance. Engineering tasks can be accessed by multiple

users at the same time. Engineers can reserve a complete application or parts of it for their

exclusive access, enabling multiple users to work on the same project at the same time without

interfering with each other’s work.

All engineering tasks can be performed concurrently in S+ Engineering; from definition

of process points and loops to function design, system and cabinet layout and all the way to

service, diagnostics and library processing.

This enables different users to complete their engineering tasks without having to wait for

others to complete theirs.

Audit trail

Effective change management enables users to meet evolving business needs in a safe and secure

manner. Within the automation system, changes to system configurations must be carefully controlled

to ensure all modifications are traceable and accountable. S+ Engineering provides complete

audit trail support for those industries that require regulatory compliance. When deployed,

S+ Engineering’s audit trail functionality tracks and archives user actions including system

changes made at any engineering workstation onto a central database. These events can also be

archived in the system’s historian for long term security audit purposes.

Intuitive navigation

The workbench’s graphical user interface, object-re lated context menus, navigator windows and many

help functions provide intuitive user guidance. Within the engineering environment, users can freely navi

gate from a tag to its associated control logic documents (CLD). Cross navigation with S+ Operations

Human Machine Interface (HMI) is also seamless.

Users can right click CLDs to call-up a faceplate while operators in the HMI environment can right click on

graphic to go to the associated logic document via the view and monitor interface. From here, the oper

ator has access to the specific function code along with simulation via block detail utilities. Links to 3rd

party documentation like PDF user manuals, excelreports, etc. are also easily established.

System Topology Engineering

The System Topology builder allows users to visually build the control project through simple drag and drop.

Features include:

• Logical and detailed network development

• Automatic diagram generation via wizard

• Automatic configuration of communication ports

• Topology information used to support central installation

• Shares topology information to S+ Operations

• Effortless documentation and report generation

• S+ publisher support for Edgenius

• Configuration support for multiple virtual plant network interfaces (VPNI)

• Multi-historian support for large historian projects