Add and configure personnel classes

In addition to the personnel hierarchy, the ANSI/ISA–95 standard states that the personnel model has a concept called personnel class and each class can have one or more custom properties. A specific person can belong to a personnel class. Through this association, people belonging to the same class can have the same set of custom properties.

A personnel class is a means to describe a group of persons with similar characteristics for scheduling and planning purposes. Any person can be a member of no classes or many personnel classes.

Example: Create a personnel class with custom properties

For example, you can configure a Personnel Class of Pump Mechanic with two custom properties: YearsOfExperience and IsInUnion.

You can then configure five specific people, and associate them with the Pump Mechanic class, thereby each of the specific people have two custom properties: YearsOfExperience and IsInUnion.

Add a personnel class

You can define a personnel class to organize personnel with shared characteristics into categories.

1. In Studio, click the Class Explorer tab.

   

2. Right-click an existing personnel class and click Add PersonnelClassDefinition. A new personnel class appears.

3. Give the personnel class a meaningful name; for example, Supervisors, Operators.

   

4. Configure the properties. For guidance in configuring the properties, see Personnel class properties.

Related topics

• About the personnel model

• Add and configure personnel

• Using Studio