EI Automatic Equipment Identification
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
-
Occurrence 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
EI-03
Equipment Number
String (AN)
Conditional
1
15
-
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 or the lading is loaded; When used to indicate the lading orientation, direction is defined relative to the equipment on which it is loaded
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