Honeywell Experion LX Manual

Experion LX

Operator's Guide

EXDOC-XX80-en-500A

April 2017

Release 500

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Contents

Contents 3

About this guide 13

Related documentation 13

Understanding the basics 14

Introducing Experion and Station 14

Introducing Station 15

What type of Station do you use? 17

What functions are available when the Experion server is unavailable 17

About Consoles 19

About Scope of Responsibility 19

Starting Station 19

Logging on to Station 19

Logging on as an override using Signon Manager 20

Changing your password 22

Logging off 22

Changing the security level in Station 22

Understanding security levels 23

Changing Station's setup file 23

Changing the Asset Profile of a Station or a Console 23

Changing the Console membership of a Station 25

About Station's layout 27

About multi-window Station layout 29

The Station Status Bar 30

Station toolbar 32

About the Signon Manager Signon Bar 33

Entering commands in the Command Zone 35

About callouts 36

About Station time-outs 37

Zooming in and out 37

About alarms and other messages 37

Using a trackball 38

Using a touchscreen 38

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Using your keyboard 39

Searching for system items 39

Using Online Data Search 40

Using Station in an Icon Series Console 42

Moving around the Icon Series Console 42

Using your thumbwheel input module 42

Using displays 43

Calling up a display 43

Using tabbed displays 43

About tabbed displays 43

Opening and closing tabbed displays 45

Navigating between tabbed displays 46

Tabbed displays: navigation scenario 46

Using pan and zoom displays 48

Panning a display 49

Zooming a display 51

Using displays in multi-window mode 52

Responding to an error message box 52

System displays 53

Calling up a web page or file 53

Printing Station information 54

Understanding display objects 55

Abnormal alphanumeric value indication 56

Alarm state icons 57

Navigating between displays of referenced points 59

Using faceplates 60

Faceplates 60

Basic operation 61

Keeping a faceplate visible 61

ToolTips 62

Shortcut keys and shortcut menus 62

Auto-selection 63

Selection independent commands 64

Selection dependent commands 64

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Basic layout of a faceplate 65

Indicator Zone of a faceplate 65

Alarm and Control Zones of a faceplate 67

Typical faceplates for the major point types 68

Faceplate symbols, display conventions, and buttons 69

Faceplate Indicator Zone symbols 70

Faceplate Control Zone symbols 72

Faceplate Control Zone display conventions 75

Faceplate buttons 76

About equipment 78

Viewing equipment 79

Viewing the Equipment Summary 81

Filtering the equipment summary 84

Accessing Equipment Detail displays 87

Viewing related Equipment 89

Monitoring and controlling equipment 91

Using points 93

About points 93

About point parameters 93

About assets 93

About Alarm Groups 94

Controlling points 94

Controlling a point from a point detail display 94

Controlling a point from a custom display 95

Controlling a point from a faceplate 96

Controlling a point from a group display 96

Disabling or enabling a point or EFM meter 96

Adding a red tag or operator tag to a point 97

Setting the Preferred SP for a point 98

About Electronic Signatures 101

Controlling points requiring Electronic Signatures 102

Responding to alarms 104

Calling up the Alarm Summary 104

Alarm Summary columns 106

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Identifying the failure point from the Alarm Summary 110

Changing what is shown in the Alarm Summary and the System Status display 112

Using the Location pane on the Alarm Summary and the System Status display 113

Using the Dashboard pane on the System Status display 115

Using column filtering and sorting on the Alarm Summary 116

Example scenario: Filtering 119

Example scenario: Sorting 119

Using views within the Alarm Summary 120

Using the details pane on the Alarm Summary 121

Navigating the Alarm Summary 122

Pausing the Alarm Summary 123

Resetting the Alarm Summary 123

Opening and using an alarm tracker 123

How the most important alarm state is determined 130

Viewing help for an alarm 131

Silencing and acknowledging alarms 132

Shelving an alarm or alert 134

Considerations for configuring an alarm unshelving delay 135

Considerations for shelving TPS alarms 137

Responding to alarms on tabbed displays 138

Viewing suppressed alarms 139

How do I know if alarms are currently suppressed? 139

How can I find out which alarms are suppressed and why? 141

Checking the status of alarm suppression groups 143

Enabling and disabling alarm suppression groups 147

Viewing historical information about alarm suppression 150

Suppressing audible annunciations 151

About suppressing audible annunciations 153

Disabling alarms for an asset in a console 156

Adding comments to an alarm 157

Viewing an alarm video clip 157

Alarm list overflow 157

TPS Alarm Summary overflow 158

What happens when you click the Recover Alarms button? 159

Responding to events 162

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Calling up the Event Summary 162

Event Summary columns 163

About journaled events 165

Changing what is shown in the Event Summary 166

Using the Location pane on the Event Summary 166

Using column filtering on the Event Summary 168

Using views within the Event Summary 169

Sorting the Event Summary 169

Example scenario - sorting the Events Summary 170

Resetting the Events Summary 170

Adding comments to an event 171

Viewing an event video clip 171

Adding an operator recorded event 172

Using Event Archiving 172

Event collection and archive status 173

Archiving events 173

Restoring archived events 174

Restoring archived events from tape 174

Restoring archived events from FileSystem 175

Checking event records for tampering 175

Responding to messages 177

About messages 177

Calling up the Message Summary 177

Message Summary columns 178

Changing what is shown in the Message Summary 179

Using the Location pane on the Message Summary 179

Filtering and sorting the Message Summary 180

Example scenario filtering the Message Summary 181

Example scenario - sorting the Message Summary 182

Using views within the Message Summary 182

Navigating the Message Summary 182

Pausing the Message Summary 183

Resetting the Message Summary 183

Silencing, acknowledging, and confirming messages 183

Acknowledging an informational message 185

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Acknowledging a confirmable message 185

Acknowledging a message that requires a single electronic signature 185

Acknowledging a message that requires two electronic signatures 186

Clearing messages 187

Adding comments to a message 188

Responding to alerts 189

The Alert Summary 189

Alert Summary columns 190

Changing what is shown in the Alert Summary 191

Using the Location pane on the Alert Summary 191

Using column filtering on the Alert Summary 193

Using views within the Alert Summary 193

Resetting the Alert Summary 193

Silencing and acknowledging alerts 194

Responding to an alert with Interactive Instructions 194

Alert Summary overflow 195

Exporting what is shown in a summary display 196

Displaying detailed process information 198

About Detail displays 198

About Point Detail displays 198

Calling up a Point Detail display 199

Displaying point history 200

Accumulator point 200

Analog point 204

Process point 210

Status point 211

Sequential control module detail displays 217

Chart view 217

Table view 219

Using Group Detail displays 220

Using trend displays 221

Trend buttons reference 222

About limit trend displays 225

Limit trend controls 226

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Changing the scale on a trend 228

Scale options 229

Viewing events on a trend 230

Changing the period on a trend 231

Adding a reference line to a trend 232

Zooming in on a trend display 232

Highlighting a plot on a trend 233

SCADA Controllers display 233

Using EFM meters 236

Displaying EFM meters 236

Calling up a Meter Detail display 236

About Meter Detail displays 237

EFM meter faceplates 241

Resetting statistics on the Meter Detail display 242

Requesting a manual collection of data from an EFM meter 243

Requesting a manual export of data from an EFM meter 243

About activities, batches, and procedures 245

Activity commands 245

Activity stages and states 246

Creating a batch or procedure 250

Batch or procedure creation and SOR 250

Calling up the activity, batch, or procedure summary 251

Summary display columns 254

Creating a batch or procedure from a summary display 255

Creating a batch or procedure from a custom display 256

Editing a batch or procedure 258

Editing batch or procedure parameters from a summary display 258

Editing batch or procedure parameters from a custom display 260

Responding to control value errors 262

Electronic signing of parameter values 263

Operating a batch or procedure 265

Executing batches or procedures 265

Starting a batch or procedure 266

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Holding a batch or procedure 266

Restarting a batch or procedure 267

Stopping a batch or procedure 267

Removing a completed batch or procedure 267

Aborting a batch or procedure 268

Executing an activity, batch, or procedure from a custom display 268

Command button control 268

Command drop-down control 269

Command panel control 269

Confirmation panel control 270

Information control 270

Information panel control 271

Instruction control 271

Instruction list control 271

Mode attribute button control 272

Mode attribute drop-down control 272

Mode button control 273

Mode drop-down control 273

Phase control 273

Procedure and sequence control icons 274

Procedure control 278

Procedure list control 278

Procedure panel control 278

Step and phase list control 279

Step control 279

Transition control 280

Transition list control 280

Unit control 281

Unit list control 281

Executing a batch or procedure from an activity detail display 282

Accessing child elements 284

Responding to child element errors 284

Managing orphaned activities 285

Reviewing a completed batch or procedure 286

Collecting, entering, and reviewing report parameters 286

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