Review the common regulatory classifications of components that were shipped with Essential on the Equipment Categories form. Examples are valve, pump, flange, control device, and compressor. Use equipment categories to classify components and to indicate the type of equipment that a regulation applies to. For example, NSPS has specific monitoring requirements for pumps.
Additional equipment categories can be established. Each equipment category must be assigned a Datalogger Code (up to 3 characters). The code is required for the Essential FEMS module to interact with a datalogger because most dataloggers can only accept short fields. The longer equipment category name will be used in the software.
For each equipment category, equivalent entries in different languages can be defined. For example, a "Pump" category in Spanish, "Bomba", could be specified. When localization has been implemented, the Culture setting assigned to a user determines which value is displayed in field lists on Essential forms. Enter the corresponding equipment categories and associate each one with the appropriate language in the Language Dependent Equipment Categories section.
Because equipment categories are broad classifications, they are not very useful when locating a specific component. For example, there are several different types of valves. Therefore, the FEMS module divides up equipment categories into many equipment types on the Equipment Type form. For example, "Tandem Pump" could be entered as an equipment type under the"Pump" general equipment category.
Assign the appropriate equipment category and type to each component on the Tag form. Document the equipment categories a regulation pertains to on the Rule Definition form.
To enter equipment categories
Click Data
Entry > Validation > Equipment Categories in the Navigation Tree.
The Equipment Categories list
appears.
Click the New
button.
The Equipment Categories form
is displayed.
Enter the name of the Equipment Category.
Type a Datalogger Code (maximum three characters) to represent the equipment category.
Enter a Description for the category.
Expand the Language Dependent Equipment Categories section, when necessary, to add the category in different languages. Otherwise, skip to step 10.
Click Add Language Values and select a Language from the list.
Enter the Equipment
Category for the language selected and click OK.
The translation information is displayed as a line item in the Language Dependent Equipment Categories
section. Edit existing translation information using the buttons adjacent
to the line item.
Repeat steps 7 and 8 to add other language translations.
Click the Save button on the form.
Repeat steps 2 through 10 to add other equipment categories
