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Contents 1 Documentation Overview .......................................................................5 1.1 Change History .........................................................................................5 1.2 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 Before you start........................................................................................5 Copyright...................................................................................................5 Quality assurance ..................................
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1 Documentation overview 1.1 Change history Version Date Changes Chapter Pages 1 03.08.2009 New document — — 1.2 Before you start 1.2.1 Copyright Reproduction and distribution of this document is only permitted with the express permission of Siemens and only for authorized persons / enterprises with appropriate technical expertise. 1.2.2 Quality assurance This document was created with the greatest possible care and attention. • The contents of all documents are regularly reviewed.
2 Introduction 2.1 Possible applications Along with energy consumption and other process variables, alarms are an integral part of modern energy and operational optimization measures. The Events module in EMC enables fast and efficient responses to problems arising in customer systems. An interactive, dynamic user interface provides a quick overview of all connected customer systems. Besides presenting alarms in a clear overview, they can be analyzed and provided with additional information.
2.2.1 Building management system The building management system produces alarm messages based on a variety of criteria. Configuration is therefore required to specify what alarms are forwarded to EMC. The configuration takes place in different ways; the Alarm Router is provided in DESIGO INSIGHT for this purpose. 2.2.2 Transfer Like all other information, alarms are transferred by the software proxy to EMC.
3 Operation 3.1 Layout and elements The Events module has a dynamic user interface. Its features include automatic refreshing following new information ("push" technology) and dynamic adaptation to the user's screen resolution. 1. Workspace All alarms that match the current filter settings are displayed here. 2. Selected alarm An alarm can be selected with a mouse click. Single mouse click: Select Doubleclick: Edit 3. Details Details are displayed in this area (read-only). 4.
3.1.1 Workspace The workspace provides a tabular view of the existing alarms. The view can be quickly reduced to a subset of variables using the filters provided on the title bar. By clicking with the mouse on a header, the table can be sorted in ascending or descending order according to the column selected. The column width can be changed by dragging its borders. The order of the columns can be adapted to the user's requirements per drag & drop in the overview.
Function Description Remarks Acknowledge The alarm is marked in EMC as acknowledged. Applies only to alarms that have been correspondingly configured in EMC (requires acknowledgement). Watch The alarm is added to the "Watched by me" view. Alarms can be monitored ("watched") by different users at the same time. No longer watch The alarm is removed from the "Watched by me" view. — Accept The current user is entered as the owner and is therefore responsible for acknowledging and closing the alarm.
If a received alarm is acknowledged, accepted or edited, the user is automatically accepted as the owner and the event card is removed from the stack for all other users. 3.2 User rights The Events module is only available to company users. The following user groups have access to the application: • Country administrators / deputies • Operators • Technicians Other users can only present events by means of reports. 3.3 Adapting views The view can be adapted to suit the user's requirements.
3.3.2 User-defined views User-specific views can be defined and stored in the Events module. In this way, for example, all of a customer's alarms or all alarms in a particular state can be quickly accessed. To create or edit a user-defined view, select the "Create/Edit View" function. To select filter criteria, the checkbox belonging to the corresponding column must be ticked.
4 Processing alarms The Edit mode is activated using the "Edit Event" function or by doubleclicking on an alarm. Note that some settings can be overwritten by the subsystem (e.g., DESIGO INSIGHT). If this is not wanted, appropriate configuration is required. 4.1 General settings Name Description Overwriting by the subsystem possible? Nodes Assignment of the alarm to the node structure. Yes Quality Assignment of a quality/category.
4.4 To do This section is used to enter work steps that are to be carried out upon occurrence of the alarm. Options for text formatting are available. This setting can be transferred by the subsystem (e.g., by DESIGO INSIGHT). 4.5 Comments Comments on a selected event can be placed at this position. Each entry is assigned the name of the author and the time of creation. The comments are sorted in decreasing chronological order. 4.6 Overview This section provides an analysis of the selected alarm.
5 Reports Alarms can be output in EMC reports and in the module analysis. In doing so, the priority of the alarms can be used as a filter criterion. If different filter criteria are selected when requesting a report, all alarms matching at least one of the criteria are output. 15 / 16 Siemens Building Technologies EMC manual – Events module Reports CM110902en_01 02.08.
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