EI Automatic Equipment Identification

To identify individual equipment and its sequence number for automatic identification

Position: EI-01 · Element: 609 · Name: Count · Type: Numeric (N0) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 9 · Repeat: 1

Occurrence counter

EI01 is the count of the entrained equipment.

Position: EI-02 · Element: 206 · Name: Equipment Initial · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 4 · Repeat: 1

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

Position: EI-03 · Element: 207 · Name: Equipment Number · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 15 · Repeat: 1

Sequencing or serial part of an equipment unit's identifying number (pure numeric form for equipment number is preferred)

Position: EI-04 · Element: 1543 · Name: Equipment Orientation Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 1 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating the direction the equipment is entrained or the lading is loaded; When used to indicate the lading orientation, direction is defined relative to the equipment on which it is loaded

Position: EI-05 · Element: 219 · Name: Position · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 3 · Repeat: 1

Relative position of shipment in car, trailer, or container (mutually defined)

EI05 is the tier of the tag placement.

Position: EI-06 · Element: 1554 · Name: Tag Status Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 1 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating the status of an Automatic Equipment Identification Tag

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