The plants selected for your own user account under User profile - Selection - Plant selection are displayed in the plant tree. The changes only take effect after saving.

Plant selection

The following information applies to the plants selected under User profile - Selection - Plant selection:

  • They are visible in the plant tree.

  • The associated notifications defined are sent.

  • The associated reports defined are sent.

Note:

If no plant is entered in the plant selection, all available plants are displayed but no notifications for these plants are sent.

A plant is added under User profile - Selection - Plant selection using a drop-down menu. The changes only take effect after saving.

Information for plants created in the ibaCMC system

Display of plants in ibaCMC

The following steps are necessary to display the plants in ibaCMC:

  1. Log into ibaCMC as an administrator

  2. Open the user groups in the user administration

  3. In the relevant user group, add and save the plant under Selection.

  4. The added plant should now be displayed in the plant tree

General tab

The General tab is available in all assets and shows some properties, which can be changed. There are additional parameters for each asset type.

ID

This value is generated automatically by the database and cannot be changed.

Order

This value indicates the order of the display within the same level of the plant tree.

Name

The name of the asset (e.g. plant, aggregate group, aggregate, etc.) can be changed here.

Comment

The Comment field is used to enter comments about an asset. The input field can be enlarged by dragging (bottom right).
Logs tab

All logs associated with the plant are displayed here.
Monitoring tab

On this tab you can set p the monitoring of thresholds and limits for trends.

Aggregation method

The aggregation method determines the calculation method of the value which is used for status monitoring. You have the choice between moving average and moving median. Only if this calculated value exceeds a threshold or limit, it will trigger a status change or alarm.

Aggregation intervall

The aggregation interval specifies the time frame, the data are taken from for calculation.

Type of status change

By this setting you determine whether the reset of a status indication should be done automatically or manually.

If set to Automatic reset, the status will be refreshed automatically when it changed. This means, for instance, that a status change from "Warning" to "Alarm" or from "Alarm" to "Warning" will also be shown automatically in the status display.

If set to Manual reset, only the status changes in direction "critcal" will be shown automatically. If the status changes toward "normal" status, the higher level status will be maintained (peak hold).

For example, if a status was "Alarm" but the trend value meanwhile has fallen on a lower level which rather corresponds to the "Warning" status, the "Alarm" status still remains.

After reviewing the alarm you can manually reset the status either in the alarm list or through the context menu of the plant tree.

Outdated after...

Use this setting to define a timeout for the status monitoring of trends. The timeout specifies the time after which the trend status is set on "outdated", if no more data was received in the selcted timespan.

An empty icon indicates the outdated status in the plant tree.

You can also disable the function.
Settings tab

Right click to call up Plant - Edit - Settings.

Paths

Here you can configure the paths for the plant archive and the error folder.

Archive folder

Enter the desired path for the plant data archive here. Example: C:\AC\Test plant\Archive

Error folder

Enter the desired path for the plant error folder here. Example: C:\AC\Test plant\Error

For example, the error folder is used to store data files in which an error occurred during processing. The data files are thus retained and can be processed again by moving them to the Temp folder after resolving the error.

CMU device status check (for not migrated plants only)

Set the time here after which a warning or an error is to be generated if a device can no longer be accessed via the network.

Setting

Description

Warning from [h]

If a device cannot be accessed for longer than the set time period, it is listed as Warning in the statistics.

Error from [h]

If a device cannot be accessed for longer than the set time period, it is listed as Alarm in the statistics.

Measurement rate for snapshots (for not migrated plants only)

  • Warning at: Set the snapshot rate above which a warning is to be displayed in the system statistics.

  • Time range: Set the time range to be included in the check.

Setting

Description

Warning from [%]

If a snapshot falls below the specified snapshot rate, it is listed as Warning.

Time range [day(s)]

Time period used for calculation of the snapshot rate.