Metadata Nomenclature for ZOOMS units and parameters

So in the world of industrial automation, there's this S88 standard for batch.  And while it doesn't address everything, it is an oldie, but goodie.

S88 talks about an equipment hierarchy, which is a way of saying:

Your equipment can be named like so that each unit is unique.

Here's an example:

Suppose you're standing in your plant looking at a your three production fermentors: F101, F102, and F103

And let's suppose that they are located in the Fermentation suite of your brewery.

Let's say your brewery is in Davis, California and the name of your company is Zymurgy Brewing.

Well then one way to name that production fermentor: F101 is as follows:

/Zymurgy/Davis/Fermentation/F101

and for the rest of your units:

/Zymurgy/Davis/Fermentation/ProductionFermentor/F101

/Zymurgy/Davis/Fermentation/ProductionFermentor/F102

/Zymurgy/Davis/Fermentation/ProductionFermentor/F103

Now let's suppose Zymurgy acquires a brewery in Dixon, CA with the same unit names: F101, F102, F103, but at that brewery, those units are portable tanks:

/Zymurgy/Dixon/Fermentation/PortableTanks/F101
/Zymurgy/Dixon/Fermentation/PortableTanks/F102

/Zymurgy/Dixon/Fermentation/PortableTanks/F103

By identifying units with their hierarchy, it's very difficult to get "collisions" where two units with the same name, have the same exact hierarchy.

Now it's easy to declare "F101, Agitation" or "F103, Air Flow"

Easy right?

Well suppose you didn't want to name your units that way.  Suppose you want the unit to be:

DIX.F101

DIX.F102

DIX.F103

That's fine, too... at least within ZOOMS.

The next hiccup with metadata nomenclature is trying to figure out which part of the descriptive goes in the unit vs which part goes in the parameter.

For example, suppose you had a water chiller:

VV.CHILLEDWATER4000 could be the unit and Temperature could be the parameter.

Alternatively, you may go with:

VV.CHILLER4000 as the unit Water Temperature as the parameter.

Should "Water" be in the unit name or should it be in the parameter?  

There's no hard rule... only that the unit and the parameter should have high reuse.   This is to say, if you have multiple homologous units, yet one is "Temperature" while the other is "Water Temperature," there's probably a better way to handle your naming.