About equipment types

An Equipment type provides a convenient way to define cause codes, classifications, and effects mappings, known as , that are relevant to several locations. See, Add and configure an equipment type.

You have the option to define causes and classifications individually at each location in the project hierarchy. However, this can lead to duplication of configuration for similar types of locations and you can use equipment types to handle this.

When a user selects a cause for a Downtime event, AVEVA™ Production Management filters the list to only the causes and the associated classifications available for the location. This filtered list is referenced back to the underlying equipment type of the location as defined in the relationship matrices.

Plan your equipment types

Create a small list of generic equipment types. Make your equipment types as general as possible, with the knowledge that individual equipment can have additional causes added later as required. This reduces the number of equipment types and keeps your project smaller and simpler to maintain.

Depending on how you plan to represent your plant in the project hierarchy, you may want to add a generic type for a plant area. This equipment type could have generic cause codes such as Bypassed, or Source materials not available.

Guidelines for grouping

Follow these guidelines for grouping pieces of equipment into common generic types:

• Do the pieces of equipment share common malfunction causes?

• Do the pieces of equipment describe a unique operation in a process?

• Are differences between equipment types superficial? Is it necessary to create an additional type?

Related topics

• Add and configure the cause code lookup list

• Add and configure a classification lookup list

• Add and configure an effect lookup list

• About the relationship matrix

• About the equipment model