Allotment of Equipment / Instrument ID

Purpose

• To define a procedure for allotment of ID to any Equipment and Instrument.

Scope

• This SOP applies to any Process Equipment, Quality Instrument, Safety and General Equipment / Instrument.

Reference(S) & Attachments

• References
• In-house
• Attachments: Nil

Responsibility:

• QA Department Person
• To assign and keep the list of all IDs assigned.
• QA Head
• To approve and review the display of all IDs assigned.

Distribution

• Quality Control
• Production
• Engineering

Definition(S) & Abbreviation(S)

• Definitions
• Nil
• Abbreviations
• Nil

Procedure

• For Equipment and Utilities
• For the Process / QC / Engineering Equipment / Instruments and Utilities like printing machine, slitting machine, holographic machine etc., ID shall be allotted in the following manner:
  • First four letters “SIPL” stand for “SHAKAMBHARI ISPAT & POWER LTD.”
  • Next two letters for the respective department, e.g. for Production – “PD”, for Engineering – “EN”, for Quality Control – “QC”.
  • Put a slash ( / ).
  • Next two letters – Sr. number of the equipment / instrument.
• For General Items / Equipment / Accessories
• For any general item / accessory like smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, air curtains etc., ID shall be allotted in the following manner:
  • First four letters “SIPL” stand for “SHAKAMBHARI ISPAT & POWER LTD.”
  • Put a slash ( / ).
  • Next two letters for the item description, e.g. for Fire Extinguishers – “FE”, for Smoke Detector – “SD”, for Fly Catcher – “FC”.
  • Put a slash ( / ).
  • Next two letters – Sr. number of the equipment / instrument.

Revision History

Revision No.

Effective Date

CC No.

Details of revision: New SOP