Equipment and Control Module

Equipment

The Apis Click&Trace Equipment term corresponds to the ANSI/ISA-S88 Equipment module term. By definition, Equipment is a functional group of physical equipment that can carry out a finite number of specific minor processing activities such as dosing and weighing. An Equipment is typically centered around a piece of process equipment (a weigh tank, a process heater, a scrubber, etc.).

Equipment class

Equipments are organized in classes. Equipments may be members of several classes and a class may contain several equipments.

Control Module

The control module is the lowest level grouping of equipment in the physical model that can carry out basic control. Basic control is control that is dedicated to establishing and maintaining a specific state of equipment or process condition. Examples of control modules are pressure and temperature transmitters and control valves.