Equipment Overview

Track equipment and instruments, and keep a record of their cleaning and maintenance processes. Resource management structures can easily be defined that reflect the hierarchies, profiles, and statuses of materials and other critical operating elements.

The Equipment Hierarchy

One of the ways our MES does this is by allowing organizations to group equipment with common attributes into "classes." An equipment class is an attribute possessed by an equipment instance, which is the physical equipment itself.

You must add equipment classes and subclasses to the Tempo MES before you can add any equipment instances.

An example of an equipment class might be a "scale," in which case we may expect to find equipment subclasses such as "benchtop," "analytical balance," or "platform."

An example of an equipment instance, which has inherited the equipment class, "scale," and the equipment subclass, "benchtop," might include a precision counting scale as the physical instance.

Next steps

Review one or more of the articles linked below to learn more about related functionality:

• Equipment Class & Subclass Overview
• Equipment Instance Overview