EI Automatic Equipment Identification

To identify individual equipment and its sequence number for automatic identification

Position
Element
Name
Type
Requirement
Min
Max
Repeat
EI-01
Count
Numeric (N0)
Optional
1
9
-
Occurence counter
EI01 is the count of the entrained equipment.
EI-02
Equipment Initial
String (AN)
Conditional
1
4
-
Prefix or alphabetic part of an equipment unit's identifying number
P0203: If either EI-02 or EI-03 is present, then the other is required
EI-03
Equipment Number
String (AN)
Conditional
1
10
-
Sequencing or serial part of an equipment unit's identifying number (pure numeric form for equipment number is preferred)
EI-04
Equipment Orientation Code
Identifier (ID)
Optional
1
1
-
Code indicating the direction the equipment is entrained
EI-05
Position
String (AN)
Optional
1
3
-
Relative position of shipment in car, trailer, or container (mutually defined)
EI05 is the tier of the tag placement.
EI-06
Tag Status Code
Identifier (ID)
Optional
1
1
-
Code indicating the status of an Automatic Equipment Identification Tag

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