Equipment definition > Unit classes and unit modules

Creating unit parameters

When you create unit modules for an application, you can define specific values for some types of unit class information (unit parameters and aliases).

Unit Class Parameter Name Parameter Type Values
BLENDER CAPACITY Floating Point 1000 (default)
  CLEAN Boolean true (default)
COLOR CAPACITY Floating Point 500 (default)

You can make use of unit parameters in your control logic and in your recipes. For instance, you could use the CLEAN parameter to identify a blender that is clean and ready for use. Then, in a recipe, you could use the CLEAN parameter to select a clean tank to use in a batch. After being used for blending, the blender could be marked by the control logic as not clean (that is, CLEAN=false). We won't actually be using the unit parameters in this way in this tutorial, but you should be aware of their potential.