SmartPlant Instrumentation 7.0

SmartPlant Instrumentation (often abbreviated SPI and historically known as INtools, now marketed in recent releases as Smart Instrumentation) is a specialized engineering application for designing, documenting, and managing plant instrumentation and control systems across the project and operations lifecycle. It provides a centralized, relational database for all instrument-related data, helping teams maintain consistency from front-end engineering through handover and maintenance.

Key capabilities:

• Instrument index and tag management with a single source of truth
• Datasheet and specification generation based on standards and templates
• Loop design and automatic production of loop diagrams, wiring/termination drawings, and I/O assignments
• Cable, panel, and termination management, including marshalling and field device connectivity
• Rule-based data validation, revision control, and change/audit tracking
• Powerful querying and reporting with customizable deliverables and bulk editing
• Interfaces for data exchange (for example, Excel-based import/export, XML) and integration with related design tools and control system vendor databases
• Support for calibration data and integration touchpoints with maintenance and enterprise systems
• Multi-user, multi-project environment with role-based permissions and workflow support

Typical users include EPCs, owner-operators, and system integrators seeking to standardize instrumentation data, automate deliverables, reduce rework, and ensure traceable, lifecycle-ready documentation.

SmartPlant Instrumentation is developed by Intergraph. The most popular version of this product among our users is 7.0. The names of program executable files are intools.exe, SmartPlantInstrumentation.exe.