There’re many pumps/valves/equipments in your system. You can create one specific object and reuse it as other instances with Reference variables and Placeholders. Just like the “SuperGenie”in Citect.
You will save lot of time when developing applications.

The environment is Vijeo designer 6.2.

To make the function, you can use the $ character and reference variable. For more details please refer to the following project and the Online Help (21.2.4 & 6.13.2).
SuperGenie.vdz

Released for:Schneider Electric UK