Carrier

Carrier

A carrier is a type of equipment that is used for hosting and transportation of material. Typical examples are baskets and trolleys. Carriers are usually used for transportation of material in the process in places where it is difficult to identify the material itself. I such cases the carriers are used to maintain traceability through registration and reading of the carrier ID’s. In fact, the carrier is a special case of an Identifier in the Apis Click&Trace database.

Carrier class

All carriers are members of a carrier class. The purpose of the carrier class is to group all carriers with physical and organizatorical properties.