What is the difference between machinery and equipment?
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SHSG-053-2003 \"Regulations on the Content of Detailed Engineering Design for Petrochemical Plants\" is divided into General Provisions, Process, Equipment, Machinery, and Industrial Furnaces. . . . . Wait, I would like to ask how this device is distinguished from machinery? What is the relationship between moving equipment and stationary equipment, and machinery? The standards state that: \"Mechanical equipment should include pumps, compressors, as well as other mechanical devices, both as individual units and in complete sets.\" . . . . ” Are this device and the machinery designed separately when the drawings are created?
I understand that the equipment refers to the containers, that is, the static equipment part； Mechanical refers to mechanical pumps, that is, the moving equipment part.
Agree with the comment above. The equipment in general design institutes is static vessel equipment ； Machinery are moving equipment, including compressors, pumps, etc
Equipment should include machinery, which is divided into moving equipment (compressors, pumps, etc.) and stationary equipment (towers, tanks, etc.). The term machinery usually refers to moving equipment, such as compression machinery, transportation machinery, and road construction machinery.
Issues regarding the specialization within design institutes: 1. The equipment specialization refers to the field of static equipment, such as tanks, towers, and heat exchangers. It belongs to a design-oriented field; after the necessary process conditions are met, design drawings are created, which ultimately lead to the production of construction drawings ； 2. The mechanical engineering field is equivalent to the dynamic equipment engineering field; it’s just called by different names. The mechanical engineering field in large design institutes is divided into three categories: fluid machinery (such as pumps and compressors), powder handling machinery (machines for transporting and crushing solids), and other machinery (molding machines, centrifuges, and various types of complete equipment). It can be understood that any device with a motor for rotation falls under the category of machinery. According to the regulations of the Luoyang Institute, certain special valves (four-way valves, rotary valves, etc.) fall under the mechanical engineering category. The mechanical engineering field does not fall under the category of design professions; its main tasks involve selecting appropriate components, ensuring they suit the process conditions, reviewing the intermediate documents related to various equipment, and handling technical coordination – it is thus a field related to technical support. Hope this can help the original poster
Upstairs, we classify things in the same way here too