EI Automatic Equipment Identification
To identify individual equipment and its sequence number for automatic identification
Position
Element
Name
Type
Requirement
Min
Max
Repeat
Occurrence counter
EI01 is the count of the entrained equipment.
Prefix or alphabetic part of an equipment unit's identifying number
P0203: If either EI-02 or EI-03 is present, then the other is required
Sequencing or serial part of an equipment unit's identifying number (pure numeric form for equipment number is preferred)
Code indicating the direction the equipment is entrained
Relative position of shipment in car, trailer, or container (mutually defined)
EI05 is the tier of the tag placement.
Code indicating the status of an Automatic Equipment Identification Tag