Specifications

2 – Configuration Overview
6 R400
Configuration Environment and Tools
A typical PlantScape configuration environment features the following
components:
• A server running the Windows 2000 operating system.
• One or more operator Stations running the Windows 2000 or Windows NT
operating system, and printers connected to the server. (In most basic
systems, the Station software and the server software run on the same
computer.)
• One or more controllers connected to the server.
The following tools are used for configuring PlantScape:
• Quick Builder (for configuring Stations, printers, controllers other than the
PlantScape Control Processor, and points on those controllers)
• Control Builder (for configuring control strategies on PlantScape Control
Processors)
• Station
• Display Builder
• Various utilities
These tools are described below. For more detailed information about the
environments that Quick Builder, Station, and Display Builder can run in, refer to
the Installation Guide.
Quick Builder
Quick Builder is a graphical tool for defining the hardware items and points in
your system. Quick Builder can run on a server, or on another computer in your
system.
After defining hardware and points with Quick Builder, you download these
definitions from Quick Builder to the server database. For a more detailed
description of Quick Builder, refer to “Using Quick Builder” on page 53.
Quick Builder comes with a set of predefined reports that you can use for
documenting your configuration database. If you want to create additional
reports, you need to purchase and install a third-party report-building application.
For more details, refer to the Installation Guide.
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