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Section 4 Engineering
3. Add objects by right-clicking and selecting new object to define the structure
of your plant, until the entire plant is covered. You should continue down to
equipment modules in which it is suitable to add the process devices controlled
by the PLCs.
Figure 33. Control Structure and Functional Structure
Now we are ready to move the device objects in the control structure to the
functional structure and for this we use the Bulk Data Manager (BDM) tool:
4. Switch structure to the Control Structure.
5. Select the root object in the Control Structure and open the Bulk Data
Manager place object in Functional Structure aspect.
6. Right-click the aspect and select Edit and Check Out.
If there are data present in the spreadsheet in addition to the column headings,
delete those.
7. If this is the first time you use the Bulk Data Manager (BDM), please select the
menu item "Bulk Data Manager", under Bulk Data Manager>Activate.
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