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Building Technologies Operating Instructions for ACS Operating and ACS Service CE1U5640en
HVAC Products 5 Tips and tricks Dec. 1, 2005
5 Tips and tricks
5.1 Status window
The status window shows you all important information about the plant. To open the
status window, select the "Window" menu – State -….
5.2 Plant
A plant consists of a central unit and several devices that are connected to the central
unit via a field bus (M-bus or LPB).
The program maps a plant in the plant file.
For more information, refer to the following chapter:
• Working with a plant
5.3 Plant file
The information about the individual plants is stored in a plant file which contains:
• Information about the plant (creation, date of creation, description, etc.)
• Information about the central unit or service interface that shall be used for
communicating with the plant, including all required settings
• The device list which contains the devices installed in the plant, including additional
information about the devices
• The plant view as defined by the user, provided it has been defined
• All parameter sets created in the "Parameter settings" application
• All trend definitions and loggings created in the "Online trend" and "Offline trend"
applications
• All commissioning report definitions and loggings created in the "Commissioning
report" application
For more information, refer to the following chapters:
• The first steps
• Working with connections
• Working with a plant
• Navigating through a plant
• Working with the devices
• Applications
5.4 Device description
A device has dynamic information that is provided in the form of a data point.
To enable the program to identify the data points contained in a device, the ACS… is
supplied complete with a static device description of each device.
In the device description, the following information is stored:
• The data points contained in the device
Status window
Plant
Plant file
Device description