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System boundaries and interfaces

What each subsystem contains, what defines its boundary, and where the drawings and the commissioning breakdown disagree.

Demonstration project - no figure here describes a real facilityChanges are not saved
Why

Membership is read from the project's own placements. No boundary here was inferred from a drawing.

Writes are validated against the engineering rules and then refused, because no database has been configured for this environment.

Systems

2

Subsystems

3

Test packs

2

Boundaries in dispute

1

A drawn boundary is never an approved boundary

A dashed box on a P&ID is a drafter’s annotation. Promoting one to a commissioning boundary is how a test pack comes to contain the wrong valves, which is discovered at hydrotest with the scaffolding already up. EDS records what the drawing shows and never acts on it.

Where the drawing and the breakdown disagree

Reported, not resolved.

Boundary disagreements
SubjectWhat disagreesBetween
HV-3101 system placementThe commissioning breakdown puts HV-3101 in SYS-31-01 and the drawn boundary on ZRF-PID-3101 puts it outside.ZRF-PID-3101 vs ZRF-REG-VR-001Nothing chosen

Subsystems and what they contain

Subsystem membership
SystemSubsystemNameItemsUnits it reaches intoDefining document
SYS-12SYS-12-01Export pumps and discharge19U-12Not recorded
SYS-12SYS-12-02Export metering8U-12Not recorded
SYS-31SYS-31-01Cooling water circulation9U-31, U-12Not recorded

Confirm a boundary

A defining document and a basis are both required.

Test packs

  • ZRF-TP-0018 items
  • ZRF-TP-0026 items

A pack that spans two units is ordinary. Why

Why the defining document matters

Every boundary here shows its defining document as not recorded, because none has been. That is the honest state: the subsystems came from a commissioning breakdown and nobody has pointed at the document that settles each one.