About Asset Groups in SIS Management

When you create an Instrumented Function in SIS Management, you can associate it with a piece of Equipment and a Functional Location. The piece of Equipment and the Functional Location together form an Asset. The Asset that is associated with the Instrumented Function is the asset that you are protecting.

Similarly, when you create a Protective Instrument Loop, you can associate each element in the loop with a piece of Equipment and a Functional Location. The Assets that are associated with the individual Protective Instrument Loops are the ones that are required to protect the Asset associated with the Instrumented Function.

The GE Digital APM system creates an asset group for each Protective Instrument Loop. This group contains all the Equipment and Functional Locations associated with each sensor, logic solver, and final element in the loop. This group is named in the following format: <The ID of the SIL Analysis ID>/<ID of the Instrumented Function>/<ID of the Protective Instrument Loop> Asset Group. The GE Digital APM system updates this group when you add a new element to the loop, remove an element from the loop, or associate an existing element with a new Equipment or Functional Location.

You can search for these groups on the Assets page.