Color-coded entries, as in terminal strip view, easily distinguish as-built connections from those added or modified in the project. For example, engineers working on a plant expansion project can add new instruments and toggle between project and as-built views of the data or view both simultaneously. With the new As-built/Project features, users can make system additions and changes for projects without affecting the documented, as-built instrument database for the operating plant. Engineers can also define fieldbus restrictions and rules and add fieldbus-specific pages to instrument data sheets. Users can define design requirements, such as power supply current and voltage, maximum allowable cable length, and other characteristics to ensure accuracy of design verification. INtools 5.1 provides for definition of pin and socket connections, junction boxes, the maximum number of devices per spur and per segment, and the maximum assigned function blocks per I/O card. Engineers can create connections and view segment maps. Drag-and-drop functionality enables users to assign instruments to segments and segments to I/O channels. With INtools 5.1, instrumentation and control engineers can now design, document, and manage data for fieldbus systems. In a single, integrated Microsoft Windows environment, INtools 5.1 provides functionality for most instrumentation life cycle engineering, design, and data management tasks.Īccording to the company, INtools 5.1 is the only commercially available instrumentation engineering and design software that supports fieldbus. Other new features include report title blocks, multi-page data sheets, an improved import module, and instrument index quick search.

The INtools software suite includes integrated modules for instrument indexes, specifications, process data, calculation, wiring, loop drawings, hook-ups, commissioning, calibration, and maintenance.Īvailable in the fourth quarter, INtools 5.1 adds fieldbus support, As-built/Project data entry and viewing as well as enhanced SmartLoop capabilities. INtools supports the entire life cycle of the plant, from design and construction to operation and maintenance, including retrofits. The Process & Building Solutions division of Intergraph Corporation announced version 5.1 version of its INtools instrumentation engineering software that enables control engineers to design, document, and manage data for fieldbus systems.

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