This dialog appears when selecting Equipment Data from the procedure's context menu (by right-clicking on a procedure icon). It has eight tabs:
● Equipment Data Dialog: Equipment tab: Allows user to set the sizing mode of the main equipment resource (Design vs Rating) and to turn on staggered mode (if needed). Displays the number of units that may be in simultaneous operation (number of units) and most important size characteristics of each unit in operation. The actual tab depends on the type of equipment resource.
● Equipment Data Dialog: Purchase Cost Tab: Allows user to choose how the purchase cost of each equipment unit will be estimated (built-in model, user-defined model or set directly by the user).
● Equipment Data Dialog: Adjustments Tab: Allows for PC adjustments to be made (based on material of construction) or added units as standby. Displays for editing several purchase cost related factors (such as maintenance cost, depreciation, usage / availability rates, etc.) that are part of the equipment component of the operating cost.
● Equipment Data Dialog: Consumables Tab: For equipment types that need some type of consumable to operate (i.e. they need a required consumable) the tab is specialized to display information about that consumable (e.g. resin for chrom. columns, cartridge for filters, etc.) For the rest of equipment, it allows users to associate a generic consumable with the equipment operation (if needed).
● Equipment Data Dialog: Scheduling Tab: Displays scheduling-related information regarding the equipment resource as a whole as well as for each of the unit procedures hosted by it.
● Equipment Data Dialog: Throughput Tab: Displays important indices (such as capacity utilization, combined utilization, throughput potential, etc.) for each procedure hosted by the equipment resource. These indices are used in the throughput analysis and debottlenecking calculations of the application.
● Equipment Data Dialog: Comments Tab: Lets the user associate comments (of any length) with the specific equipment resource.
● Equipment Data Dialog: Allocation Tab: If the process section that the equipment belongs to has been allocated to a database site, then this tab allows the user to allocate the specific equipment resource to a database equipment (that is listed as part of the database site).