States and Icons of the Material Flow Objects
During your simulation runs Plant Simulation shows the state of the material flow objects and of the Frame, compare States of the Frame, as one or more colored dots in the LED display 
along the top border of the built-in icons of the objects in the Frame.
Each object has an icon named Default. Plant Simulation shows the object with that icon in the Toolbox.
You can also create additional icons, and have Plant Simulation use these icons to display the state of the object:
Open the Icon Editor.
Click State Icons/LEDs on the General ribbon tab of the Icon Editor.
Default LED | Sample state icons |
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The LED display can display several active states at the same time, while the state icon can only display the single state it represents.
State of the object | Looks like this | LED | State icon |
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| yellow | — | |
| red | Failed | |
Inflow into one of the Fluid Objects |
| light green | — |
Operational | — | — | Operational |
Outflow out of one of the Fluid Objects |
| dark green | — |
| blue | Pause | |
| purple | — | |
Recovering (Recovery time) or Entrance locked |
| cyan | No_entry |
| brown | Setup | |
| pink | — | |
| light blue | — | |
Waiting for services and/or mounting parts |
| orange | Res_not_avail |
| green | Working |
The length-oriented objects do not display LEDs.
To correctly display state changes with state icons, make sure that the object provides one icon each for the different states. Otherwise Plant Simulation cannot find the corresponding icon to display, when the object’s state changes and keeps displaying the icon for the previous state.
The state graphics in 3D correspond to the LEDs described above.
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