What is equipment?
In "The Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" SI Ozhegov defines equipment as a set of mechanisms, machines, devices, devices necessary for work and production.
There are also other definitions explaining thatsuch equipment. For example: equipment - a machine and tools designed to impact on the subject of labor in order to change its shape, properties, condition or position. Sometimes, using the word "equipment", do not mean objects, but the process (from the verb "equip") Example: complete the kitchen equipment.
Types of equipment
Equipment is usually classified by industryapplication. What about the equipment? All-Russian classifier of fixed assets allocates more than forty different classes of machines used for production. Basic equipment for:
- agriculture and logging (tractors, soil tillage machines, sowing and harvesting machines);
- various industries (metallurgy, mining, food, light industry, construction);
- communal facilities, equipment for fire alarm and automatic fire extinguishing;
- for enterprises of trade and public catering;
- medical and surgical equipment;
- engines, turbines, steam boilers (up to nuclear reactors);
- Pipeline industrial fittings, pumps, compressors;
- thermal equipment (furnaces and burners);
- Lifting and transporting devices (cranes, elevators, conveyors, escalators):
- devices of hydro- and pneumoautomatics;
- machine tools and tools to them (drills, cutters, taps);
- electronic computing and office equipment;
- electric motors, transformers, cables, sources of autonomous power supply;
- equipment for radio, television, communications, photo and cinematographic equipment;
- measuring and control devices;
- equipment for testing and research;
- Refueling equipment and accessories for car repairs;
- equipment for river and sea vessels, rolling stock of railways and aircraft;
- equipment for theaters, other cultural institutions, musical instruments.
What is the difference between equipment and materials
Do not confuse the concepts"materials" and "equipment." Materials are substances or mixtures of substances from which a person makes himself any useful objects. It is an object of work. Equipment is this, with the help of which a person produces useful objects. These are tools of labor.
It is interesting that in modern Russia equipment is on the first place in the list of imported goods (read about this in the article What is imported into Russia)
Acquisition of necessary equipment -an integral part of creating your own business, from opening a movie theater (How to open a cinema? | Equipment) to the tire service (How to open a tire? | Let's talk about the equipment). More details about this you can read in the article How to open your own production? | | Room and equipment.
