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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.
Units
A unit resource represents an alternate production path within a process cell.

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  - 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.
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Units

A unit resource represents an alternate production path within a process cell.

In the equipment model, a unit is a terminating resource; that is; the last resource in a hierarchy. Unit resources are contained within a process cell only when some variability exists within the process cell regarding the path a product takes. For example, a unit adds value to a process cell by adding a dye or chemical to the overall process.

The following information describes the hierarchy of this resource:

Required:	no; optional
Contained by:	Process cell; Production unit; Unit
Can Contain:	one or more Units; Equipment modules

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 Tab

For more information see Equipment Properties.

Classes Tab

For more information, see Equipment Classes.