Citect SCADA

When having equipment types that are similiar, today you can either make a copy with the differences (hard to maintain) or for some cases making optional signals through the xml can be done.

What would be nice is to add an equipment type in another type, so that you can define a processvalue (PV) equipment type once, with trend / alarm and necessary tag structure once. Then in other equipment types instead of re-creating 10/15/20 times or however many signals you need, you paste the PV equipment type where most of the information is handled in that equipment type.

EquipmentType PV

processvalue with trend and alarm - no type

supporttag for alarmblocking - no type

EquipmentType Motor

PV1 - type PV

PV2 - type PV

CMD - no type

EquipmentType Motor_special

motor - type Motor

extrasignal1 - type PV

extrasignal2 - no type