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Equipment Model
Equipment Model
The equipment model presents a structured hierarchy of resources to develop a modular representation of a complete production or manufacturing organization in a physical and functional context. The model is flexible, addressing batch, continuous, and discrete production types, or representing inventory storage.
Equipment Classes
Equipment classes allow you to organize properties into common collections to make the modeling process easier for equipment resources.

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Resource Information and Configuration
- Resource Information and Configuration
- Material Model
- Material Inventory
- Equipment Model
  - Equipment Model
    The equipment model presents a structured hierarchy of resources to develop a modular representation of a complete production or manufacturing organization in a physical and functional context. The model is flexible, addressing batch, continuous, and discrete production types, or representing inventory storage.
    - Generate an Equipment Model for Web HMI
      You can generate an Equipment Model CSV file from Workflow data that can then be uploaded to Web HMI.
    - Generate an Equipment Model for Operations Hub Using GenerateWebHMIModel.exe
      You can generate multiple equipment models for Operations Hub that use different export configurations files coming from different systems.
    - Equipment Duplication
      While Workflow allows for infinite levels of equipment in its hierarchy, Plant Applications has only three levels in the equipment model.
    - Duplicate an equipment instance
      You can duplicate any equipment resource.
    - Change the parent equipment for an equipment resource
    - Add an equipment class to an equipment definition
    - Add properties to a resource
    - Use custom property types in the equipment model
    - Copy and paste property fields
    - Modify the values for a property
    - Delete properties from a resource
    - Configure the columns for the properties tab
    - Order the properties in the properties tab
    - Enterprises
      An enterprise resource represents a complete production organization and is the highest level resource in the equipment hierarchy.
    - Sites
      A site resource represents a geographic subdivision of a production organization, with self-contained production capabilities.
    - Areas
      An area represents a group of physical production equipment.
    - Production Units
      A production unit represents a group of physical equipment items applied to a continuous manufacturing process.
    - Production Lines
      A production line resource represents a group of physical equipment items that are applied sequentially to manufacture a product.
    - Process Cells
      A process cell resource represents a group of physical equipment items that is dedicated to a batch manufacturing subprocess. It performs operations on a raw material to produce an interim or final product.
    - Units
      A unit resource represents an alternate production path within a process cell.
    - Work Cells
      A work cell resource represents a group of physical equipment items that are applied sequentially to manufacture a product. Work cells most often represent one of multiple alternate paths that can be taken by a product on a production line. Although smaller equipment items may be contained by a work cell, they are not defined in the equipment model.
    - Storage Zones
      A storage zone resource represents a complete inventory subsystem, which has the capability to receive, store, retrieve, move, and ship materials required for production, including material movements between enterprises.
    - Storage Units
      A storage unit resource represents an inventory of a specific material, a group of materials, or a specific type of storage.
    - Equipment Modules
      An equipment module can carry out a finite number of specific, minor processing activities. It combines all necessary physical processing and control equipment to perform those activities.
    - Control Modules
      A control module can consist of a collection of sensors, actuators, other control modules, and associated processing equipment that is operated as a single entity.
    - Equipment Instance Properties
      You can configure values for equipment property attributes. All properties are literal unless the linked option is selected.
    - Equipment Classes
      Equipment classes allow you to organize properties into common collections to make the modeling process easier for equipment resources.
    - Equipment Class Properties
      Classes allow you to define standard properties to apply to the equipment resources that make up your production operation.
    - Equipment Actuals
      Equipment actuals identify an equipment capability used during a selected work process segment.
- Production Model
- Events Model
- Event View
- Actuals
- Property Groups and Aspects

Equipment Classes

Equipment classes allow you to organize properties into common collections to make the modeling process easier for equipment resources.

You may have equipment that have common properties that you want to apply to a number of equipment resources. For example, every machine that draws power may have a ‘current draw’ property for monitoring energy usage in your plant. Rather than adding this property to every equipment resource, you can create a “Powered Machine” class that contains the common properties for current draw, voltage, and so on. After the class is defined, you can add this class to every equipment resource that uses power. For every resource you add the class to, the properties defined in the class become available so you can read from or write to those properties. This not only makes the process of creating your models easier, it ensures that you have common data across machines for reporting and analysis.

Important: If you change a property within a class, that change affects all resources that the class was added to.

Details Tab

You can change the name and description of this resource.

Attribute	Value	Description
Name	Required; user-defined up to 50 characters	Specifies a display name for a resource.
Description	User-defined up to 255 characters	Provides more information about a resource that a user may find helpful.

Properties

On the Properties tab of an equipment class, the available columns are Name, Type, Value, Unit of Measure, and Description. There are no Linked or Equipment Class columns.

For more information, see Equipment Class Properties.