i am looking for fault codes and equipment codes , for implementing cmms . we have MP-2 software , I will appriciate if any body can send me lists of equipment codes and general fault codes for medium size industry and give me some hints for implementing CMMS
ajit

This is just to share few thoughts regarding the equipment numbering system.
The idea behind this numbering method is easy identification of equipment and location.
The method is as follows
Equipment number constitute of different parts. Each parts represents letters or numbers which can identifying the equipment as part of a system . Each part are described below
This is the 1st part which is to be mentioned only on title bar of drawing (for instruments)
1) Site
2) Plant
3) System
4) Sub system
5)Equipment
2nd part
6) Instrument
7) Loop no

For functional elements the number should consist of part from 3 to 5


Site – First letters corresponds to the name of the site
Plant – This corresponds to the main plant name. Eg – Gas compression
Sub system – sees all individual process as a sub system. Eg – compressor, power generation, dehydration, suction scrubber system, discharge header, metering, flare etc
Equipment - equipment number identifies the equipment under a particular system. Eg – Generator, scrubber vessel, Shutoff valve, Blowdown valve etc. (only functional elements) In case of an instrument which is not a part of a equipment( eg – flow transmitter on a pipeline ) this can be marked as “XX”.
Instrument – Instruments numbered according to equipment functionality as per ISA-5.1 -1984
If the vendor naming conventions does not follow the above standard it should be corrected to meet the standard.
Loop numbering- to be followed as it is in vendor diagrams. In case of new installations additional numbers can be allotted to instrument based on above criteria.
In this method there will be two main parts in numbering system. One part is up to equipment number and other part consists of instrument number and loop number. The first part will be mentioned only at the drawing title bar.
Following are the advantages I see in this method
If a person at site wants to identify an instrument from a drawing the first part will help him to go up to equipment level and 2nd part will help to identify the instrument. (For a person familiar with naming conventions can identify the equipment from name itself).
For Oracle asset management system this numbering gives clear indication where it is located.
The loop number and instrument number need not to be changed always. Any changes to the numbering can be made simply by changing the first part at title bar.
Our instrument numbering will be 70% consistent with the vendor instrument numbering.
Same conventions can be used in control system alarm and control element numbering.
Instrument cable numbering can also follow this system.