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.