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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.
Add properties to a resource

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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

Add properties to a resource

Procedure

In the navigator, click Equipment > Instances.
Continue selecting from the lists that appear until you find the resource you want to work with.
In the Displays panel, select an editor.
The editor appears in the workspace, displaying the resource information.
Click the Properties tab, and then click Add Property.
In the Name field, enter a name for this property.
In the Type field, select a data type or browse for a class.

Note: If you selected an equipment class as the data type, you must expand the property to view the class properties.
In the Value field, enter a value for the selected data type.
If applicable, in the Unit of Measure field, enter a unit of measure for the selected data type.
To bind the property to an external data source, do the following:

Note: You cannot bind equipment class properties to an external data source.
1. Select the Linked check box.
2. Click in the Value field, and then click the ellipsis button.
  The Configure Data Source dialog box appears.
3. Configure the data source, as required.
4. If applicable, click the Show Details button, and then click Test external data link to test whether the data source is valid.
In the Description field, enter a description for this property.
Click Save.