Specifications

1 – About This Guide
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Before Reading This Guide
Before using this Guide to configure your PlantScape server, you need to:
• Understand basic PlantScape concepts such as “channel,” “controller,”
“point,” and “Station,” as explained in the Overview Guide.
• Install the PlantScape and third party software as described in the
Installation Guide.
In following the procedures in this Guide, it is useful to have documented your
site and processes (for example, in a single-line or process and instrumentation
diagram) as suggested in the Overview Guide. This will help you to match it to
the PlantScape server database that you want to build.
Prerequisite Skills
This Guide assumes that you have a basic knowledge of the hardware you are
using: that is, the computers, printers, network components, and especially the
field devices and controllers, such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
It also assumes that you have a basic familiarity with the Microsoft Windows
operating systems that you are using.
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