Serial Equipment

The purpose of the Serial Equipment tab is to route transaction documents from serial physical equipments locations to a new fictive equipment location. This aggregated equipment location can be mapped to one single offline tracker process unit in the TPU Reference tab.

This parameter tab is based on the parameter matrix concept. Use the Add button to add a new row and the remove button to remove a selected row. The columns of the matrix are described below.

Equipment Location Name

This column defines the equipment location names of the equipment locations to aggregate.

Aggregate name

This column defines the name of the aggregated equipment location that shall handle transactions aimed for the equipment location defined in the Equipment Location Name column.

Topology Position

This column defines the the topology position of the actual physical equipment inside the serial aggregate equipment location. The alternatives are:

• FIRST. The equipment location is the first location inside the serial aggregate. Enter transactions such as MaterialEnter and MaterialGroupEnter are registered normally while exit transactions such as MaterialExit and MaterialGroupExit are reduced to pure RegisterMaterialAttributes or RegisterMaterialGroupAttributes transactions.
• INTERMEDIATE. The equipment location is intermediate inside the serial aggregate. Movement transactions such as MaterialEnter, MaterialGroupEnter, MaterialExit and MaterialGroupExit are reduced to pure RegisterMaterialAttribute or RegisterMaterialGroupAttribute transactions.
• LAST. The equipment location is the last location inside the serial aggregate. Exit transactions such as MaterialExit and MaterialGroupExit are registered normally while enter transactions such as MaterialEnter and MaterialGroupEnter are reduced to pure RegisterMaterialAttributes or RegisterMaterialGroupAttributes transactions.