About Reconfiguration Tool

The Reconfiguration Tool in CET Designer is a fast and easy way to manage inventories and reconfigurations of complex facilities. It is easy-to-use, with basic graphical representations in flowchart form that allow you to compare different scenarios for reconfigurations to optimally reuse existing installed and warehoused products. It is also an evolving document that helps you to keep track, over a period of time, of where products are installed or warehoused. All inventories are kept as a part of the evolving and growing flowchart for future consideration. This tool considers both CET Designer drawings and PM SIF files, and allows you to prioritize pulling items from certain locations.

The Reconfiguration Tool is a separate Extension which is downloaded free of charge from our website. To access the Extensions page, you just click the Extensions button in the program window:

After installation, you launch it by clicking the Start Reconfiguration Tool button on the Reconfiguration Tool component tab. This opens a new window with a pre-made flowchart.

When saving a reconfiguration chart, a separate file with the suffix .cmrcf is created. This file can be opened without access to the drawing files that were originally loaded in the chart.

Note

There is no synchronization between the Reconfiguration Tool and the drawing area or the calculation in the main window. This means that if you have made changes in a drawing, you need to save it and then reload it in the Reconfiguration Tool for these changes to be included. There is, however, a connection between the Reconfiguration Tool and the Paper View, letting you insert a view port with a reconfiguration chart.
During the initial months following the release of the Reconfiguration Tool, there may be limited support for some features. Not all manufacturers have had the needed time to adjust their Extensions to all features in the Reconfiguration Tool. We therefore encourage you to keep an extra eye out for undesired deviations that could indicate incorrect results.

User interface

The top half of the window displays the flowchart while the bottom half shows a calculation view listing all the articles within a selected block, as in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: The Reconfiguration Tool interface with a sample flowchart.

	Reconfiguration flowchart
	Calculation view for the selected block
	Menu