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                "name": "compressor",
                "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a compressor, assess whether it can safely deliver its required gas-compression duty, and determine which operating or maintenance actions are permitted.",
                "definition": "A machine that raises the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume or by transferring momentum to it, typically to store, transport, or drive a process stream.",
                "scope_statement": "This model owns the compressor as a physical machine that raises gas or vapour pressure, including its compression mechanism, machine-level performance, condition, interfaces and protective constraints; the boundary of any packaged auxiliaries must be recorded explicitly.",
                "in_scope": [
                    "Compression mechanism, stages and physical machine boundary",
                    "Gas or vapour service and material compatibility",
                    "Pressure, flow, power and temperature behaviour within the applicable operating envelope",
                    "Condition of compression elements, bearings, seals and internal lubrication where applicable",
                    "Capacity controls, protective functions and prerequisites for operation or maintenance"
                ],
                "out_of_scope": [
                    "Plant-wide process objectives and production scheduling",
                    "Distribution piping and downstream gas users",
                    "Standalone receivers and pressure-vessel integrity programmes",
                    "The complete refrigeration or heat-pump cycle",
                    "Detailed models of separately managed motors, turbines and electrical supplies"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Its intended working medium at the compression inlet is gas or vapour; a machine intended primarily to pressurise liquid belongs to a pump model.",
                    "It actively raises gas or vapour pressure; a receiver stores pressurised gas without performing compression.",
                    "Its documented duty identifies compression service; distinguish it from a fan or blower using the applicable equipment classification and operating duty, without assuming a universal pressure-ratio threshold.",
                    "Its intended energy transfer is into the gas to raise pressure; an expander primarily extracts energy as gas pressure falls."
                ],
                "characteristics": [
                    {
                        "name": "Compression mechanism",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "Reciprocating, rotary screw, rotary vane, scroll, centrifugal, axial, other documented mechanism, unknown",
                        "why_it_matters": "Determines which performance limits, failure modes and control methods are applicable."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Machine and package boundary",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Included stages and auxiliaries; links to separately modelled driver, coolers, separators and receiver",
                        "why_it_matters": "Prevents package capabilities or faults from being incorrectly attributed to the compressor itself."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Working-fluid specification",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "Gas or vapour identity, composition range, moisture and contaminant limits, with specification reference",
                        "why_it_matters": "Establishes compatibility and the conditions under which performance and protective limits apply."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Suction pressure",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Pa or bar absolute, with measurement location and time",
                        "why_it_matters": "Defines inlet conditions and supports calculation of the actual compression duty."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Discharge pressure",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Pa or bar absolute, with measurement location and time",
                        "why_it_matters": "Shows delivered pressure and proximity to applicable pressure limits."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Delivered flow",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "kg/s or m³/s; volumetric values require actual or reference pressure, temperature and composition basis",
                        "why_it_matters": "Allows capacity comparisons without confusing inlet, discharge and reference-volume measurements."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Gas temperatures",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "°C or K at identified suction, interstage and discharge locations",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of compression heating, cooling effectiveness and temperature limits."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Input power",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "kW, identifying shaft or electrical measurement boundary",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports load and performance assessment against comparable operating conditions."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Speed and capacity setting",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "rpm and mechanism-specific setting such as load fraction, guide-vane angle or unloader position",
                        "why_it_matters": "Explains delivered capacity and constrains permissible adjustments."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Operating mode",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Stopped, starting, loaded, unloaded, stopping, tripped, maintenance-isolated, unknown; applicability documented",
                        "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes production readiness from merely being stationary or powered."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Applicable operating envelope",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Versioned manufacturer or approved engineering limits and maps for the installed configuration and fluid",
                        "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for deciding whether an operating point or proposed action is acceptable."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Condition evidence",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Timestamped vibration, leakage, lubricant, inspection and performance observations with locations and operating context",
                        "why_it_matters": "Makes condition judgements traceable and separates observations from suspected causes."
                    }
                ],
                "affordances": [
                    "Match a required gas-compression duty to the installed machine and its documented limits.",
                    "Compare pressure, flow, temperature and power observations with an applicable performance baseline.",
                    "Identify mechanism-specific abnormal behaviour and request targeted inspection or measurement.",
                    "Evaluate a proposed start, stop or capacity adjustment against prerequisites and control authority.",
                    "Determine whether protective conditions require holding operation or invoking an approved response.",
                    "Plan isolation and maintenance using documented pressure boundaries, stored-energy hazards and access requirements."
                ]
            },
            "sources": [
                {
                    "id": "iso-3857-1",
                    "title": "ISO 3857-1:1977 Compressors, pneumatic tools and machines - Vocabulary - Part 1: General",
                    "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/9385.html",
                    "what_it_supports": "Establishes the general vocabulary that treats a compressor as a machine for raising gas pressure.",
                    "url_status": "blocked"
                },
                {
                    "id": "iso-1217",
                    "title": "ISO 1217:2009 Displacement compressors - Acceptance tests",
                    "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/41172.html",
                    "what_it_supports": "Defines how displacement compressors are typed and performance-tested (volume flow, power, specific energy).",
                    "url_status": "blocked"
                },
                {
                    "id": "iso-5389",
                    "title": "ISO 5389:2005 Turbocompressors - Performance test code",
                    "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/37290.html",
                    "what_it_supports": "Performance-test code for dynamic (turbo) compressors, separating them from positive-displacement machines.",
                    "url_status": "blocked"
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                    "id": "asme-ptc-10",
                    "title": "ASME PTC 10-2022 Performance Test Code on Compressors and Exhausters",
                    "url": "https://www.asme.org/codes-standards/find-codes-standards/ptc-10-compressors-exhausters",
                    "what_it_supports": "North American performance-test practice for centrifugal and axial compressors.",
                    "url_status": "live"
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                {
                    "id": "wikidata-q23586",
                    "title": "gas compressor (Q23586)",
                    "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23586",
                    "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier and aliases for the mechanical gas compressor as a class of machine.",
                    "url_status": "live"
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                        "id": "compression-identity-and-service",
                        "name": "Compression identity and service",
                        "description": "Establishes what performs compression, what fluid it handles and where the machine boundary lies.",
                        "rationale": "A compressor cannot be assessed correctly from its name alone because mechanism, fluid and package boundary change the applicable evidence and constraints.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "mechanism-and-boundary",
                                "name": "Mechanism and boundary",
                                "description": "Identifies the compression principle and included equipment.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "installed-compression-configuration",
                                        "name": "Installed compression configuration",
                                        "description": "Record the documented mechanism, stage arrangement and distinction between the compressor and its surrounding package.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which compression mechanism and stage arrangement are installed, and what nameplate, drawing or manual establishes this?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "installed-compression-configuration-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which driver, cooler, separator, lubrication and control components belong inside this compressor's recorded boundary?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "installed-compression-configuration-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "fluid-and-duty",
                                "name": "Fluid and duty",
                                "description": "Defines the intended compression service and admissible inlet medium.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "working-fluid-and-inlet-quality",
                                        "name": "Working fluid and inlet quality",
                                        "description": "Record intended gas or vapour service and documented restrictions on composition, contamination and liquid presence.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What gas or vapour composition and inlet-condition range define the required compression duty?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "working-fluid-and-inlet-quality-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence establishes allowable moisture, particles and liquid carryover for this particular compressor?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "working-fluid-and-inlet-quality-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "compression-duty-and-performance",
                        "name": "Compression duty and performance",
                        "description": "Connects observed pressure, capacity and energy demand to a comparable compression duty.",
                        "rationale": "Pressure or flow alone cannot establish whether a compressor is meeting duty or losing performance.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "measured-operating-point",
                                "name": "Measured operating point",
                                "description": "Makes inlet, outlet and capacity observations mutually interpretable.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "pressure-flow-and-temperature-basis",
                                        "name": "Pressure, flow and temperature basis",
                                        "description": "Record a time-aligned operating point with explicit pressure references, flow basis and sensor locations.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the simultaneous suction and discharge absolute pressures and temperatures at identified measurement points?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "pressure-flow-and-temperature-basis-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What flow is delivered, and is it mass flow or volumetric flow stated at explicitly defined conditions?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "pressure-flow-and-temperature-basis-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "performance-comparison",
                                "name": "Performance comparison",
                                "description": "Assesses delivered duty and energy demand against evidence applicable to the installed machine.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "applicable-capacity-and-power-baseline",
                                        "name": "Applicable capacity and power baseline",
                                        "description": "Associate measured performance with a manufacturer curve, acceptance test or justified historical baseline.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which baseline applies to this fluid, speed, capacity setting and inlet condition, and what corrections does it require?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "applicable-capacity-and-power-baseline-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do delivered flow and measured input power differ from that baseline after accounting for measurement uncertainty and the power boundary?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "applicable-capacity-and-power-baseline-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "operating-envelope-and-capacity-control",
                        "name": "Operating envelope and capacity control",
                        "description": "Defines allowable operating points and the means available to move between them.",
                        "rationale": "Different compression mechanisms require different capacity controls and operating restrictions; a generic running state is insufficient.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "mechanism-specific-limits",
                                "name": "Mechanism-specific limits",
                                "description": "Selects the limits relevant to the installed compression mechanism.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "admissible-compression-region",
                                        "name": "Admissible compression region",
                                        "description": "Record applicable pressure, temperature, speed, load and stability limits without importing restrictions from an unrelated compressor type.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which approved limits constrain this machine, including surge or choke boundaries where applicable and mechanical loading limits where applicable?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "admissible-compression-region-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where does the current operating point lie relative to those limits, and what uncertainty affects the assessed margin?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "admissible-compression-region-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "capacity-actuation",
                                "name": "Capacity actuation",
                                "description": "Identifies the installed methods and prerequisites for changing compression output.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "permitted-capacity-transitions",
                                        "name": "Permitted capacity transitions",
                                        "description": "Record available speed, unloading, recycle or other capacity controls and their approved transition conditions.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which installed actuators change capacity, and how do their settings affect delivered flow and machine loading?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "permitted-capacity-transitions-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What prerequisites, sequencing, rate limits and authority govern a proposed start, loading change, unloading or stop?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "permitted-capacity-transitions-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "compression-element-condition",
                        "name": "Compression-element condition",
                        "description": "Connects physical condition evidence to the compressor's mechanism and operating context.",
                        "rationale": "The same symptom can have different implications across compressor mechanisms, so diagnosis must retain location, load and evidential uncertainty.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "mechanical-and-sealing-condition",
                                "name": "Mechanical and sealing condition",
                                "description": "Tracks deterioration of the parts that compress, support and contain the gas.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mechanism-specific-degradation-evidence",
                                        "name": "Mechanism-specific degradation evidence",
                                        "description": "Record observations concerning installed compression elements, bearings, valves and seals while keeping suspected causes distinct from confirmed defects.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What vibration, noise, leakage, inspection or capacity-loss evidence exists, and at what location, speed and load was it observed?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "mechanism-specific-degradation-evidence-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which inspection or diagnostic procedure can distinguish the suspected compression-element, bearing, valve or seal fault?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "mechanism-specific-degradation-evidence-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "lubrication-and-heat-removal",
                                "name": "Lubrication and heat removal",
                                "description": "Assesses installed lubrication and cooling provisions that sustain compression.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "lubrication-and-cooling-adequacy",
                                        "name": "Lubrication and cooling adequacy",
                                        "description": "Record the lubrication arrangement and cooling evidence, distinguishing compression-chamber oil exposure from separately lubricated components.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which parts require lubrication, can lubricant contact the process gas, and which documented lubricant and cooling requirements apply?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "lubrication-and-cooling-adequacy-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What lubricant pressure, temperature, condition and cooling measurements demonstrate adequacy at the current duty?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "lubrication-and-cooling-adequacy-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "containment-protection-and-intervention",
                        "name": "Containment, protection and intervention",
                        "description": "Records protection coverage and conditions for intervening on a machine containing pressurised gas.",
                        "rationale": "Stopping rotation does not establish depressurisation, isolation or readiness for restart or maintenance.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "protective-coverage",
                                "name": "Protective coverage",
                                "description": "Identifies the protective functions and external safeguards on which compressor operation depends.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "compression-hazard-safeguards",
                                        "name": "Compression-hazard safeguards",
                                        "description": "Record applicable alarms, trips, pressure protection, reverse-flow prevention and mechanism-specific protective controls, including dependencies outside the machine boundary.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which safeguards address the documented compressor hazards, and where are their settings, coverage and verification status established?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "compression-hazard-safeguards-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What approved response applies when a safeguard activates, is bypassed or is unavailable?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "compression-hazard-safeguards-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "isolation-and-return-to-service",
                                "name": "Isolation and return to service",
                                "description": "Establishes intervention boundaries and evidence required before maintenance or restart.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "verified-pressure-and-drive-isolation",
                                        "name": "Verified pressure and drive isolation",
                                        "description": "Record how the compressor is isolated from its driver and connected pressure sources, how trapped gas is managed and how readiness is re-established.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which suction, discharge, interstage and auxiliary connections can retain or reintroduce pressure, and which drive sources can cause movement?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "verified-pressure-and-drive-isolation-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What approved procedure and verification evidence are required for depressurisation, fluid-specific gas handling, maintenance access and subsequent return to service?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "verified-pressure-and-drive-isolation-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment",
                        "name": "Evidence and external alignment",
                        "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.",
                        "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.",
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                                "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-kinds",
                                        "name": "Kinds and varieties",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
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                                            "reciprocating (piston) compressor",
                                            "rotary screw compressor",
                                            "centrifugal (dynamic) compressor",
                                            "axial compressor",
                                            "scroll compressor",
                                            "rotary vane compressor",
                                            "liquid-ring compressor",
                                            "diaphragm (membrane) compressor"
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-kinds-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
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                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Identifiers and schemes",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
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                                                "scheme": "Wikidata",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Q23586",
                                                "note": "Item 'gas compressor'; distinct from Q178048 (audio compressor) and from Q178361 (clothing garment)."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "ISO 3857 vocabulary",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "compressor (machine that increases the pressure of a gas)",
                                                "note": "ISO 3857-1 general term; later parts distinguish pneumatic tools and machines."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "UNSPSC",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "401515xx (compressors)",
                                                "note": "Commodity family under industrial pumping and compression equipment; exact leaf codes split by type (reciprocating, rotary, centrifugal)."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "CPC / HS",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "HS 8414 (air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans)",
                                                "note": "Trade heading that also covers fans and vacuum pumps; compressor-specific subheadings sit under 8414.80 / 8414.40."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation",
                                        "name": "Standards and regulation",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "ISO 1217:2009 Displacement compressors - Acceptance tests (ISO)",
                                            "ISO 5389:2005 Turbocompressors - Performance test code (ISO)",
                                            "ISO 7183 Compressed-air dryers - Specifications and testing (ISO) - adjacent when treating a compressed-air plant",
                                            "ASME PTC 10 Performance Test Code on Compressors and Exhausters (ASME)",
                                            "API 617 Axial and Centrifugal Compressors and Expander-compressors (American Petroleum Institute)",
                                            "API 618 Reciprocating Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services (API)",
                                            "API 619 Rotary-Type Positive-Displacement Compressors for Petroleum, Petrochemical, and Natural Gas Industries (API)",
                                            "ASME BPV Code Section VIII (pressure vessels / receivers that store the compressed gas) (ASME)",
                                            "PED 2014/68/EU Pressure Equipment Directive, for vessels and piping in the EU compressed-air/gas plant (European Union)",
                                            "OSHA 29 CFR 1910.169 Air receivers (United States)"
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-real-world-use",
                                        "name": "Real-world use",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Factory compressed-air plants driving pneumatic tools, actuators, and blow-off, usually with a rotary-screw package, dryer, and receiver.",
                                            "Process gas compression in refineries, LNG, and chemical plants (API 617 centrifugal or API 618 reciprocating trains).",
                                            "Refrigeration and HVAC vapour-compression cycles (hermetic scroll or reciprocating compressors in the refrigerant circuit).",
                                            "Pipeline and underground-storage gas transmission (large centrifugal or reciprocating units at compressor stations).",
                                            "Vehicle air brakes, suspension, and tyre inflation (engine-driven or electric reciprocating/vane units).",
                                            "SCUBA and industrial breathing-air filling (oil-free or filtered high-pressure reciprocating stages).",
                                            "Turbochargers and aircraft gas-turbine compressors as rotating stages that raise inlet air pressure before combustion."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-measurements",
                                        "name": "Typical measurements",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "discharge (gauge) pressure",
                                                "typical_range": "7-10 bar(g) shop air; 20-40 bar high-pressure industrial; 200-300 bar breathing-air; process gas from near-atmospheric to >100 bar",
                                                "unit": "bar or MPa (gauge or absolute, stated)"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "inlet volume flow (FAD, free-air delivery)",
                                                "typical_range": "0.1-1 m³/min small workshop; 5-50 m³/min plant screw packages; hundreds of m³/min large centrifugals",
                                                "unit": "m³/min or m³/s, referred to stated inlet conditions"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "shaft / package power",
                                                "typical_range": "0.75-15 kW portable; 15-250 kW industrial screw; MW-class process and pipeline machines",
                                                "unit": "kW"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "specific energy (power per unit FAD)",
                                                "typical_range": "about 5.5-13 kW per m³/min at 7-10 bar(g) for oil-injected screws, depending on control and unload",
                                                "unit": "kW/(m³/min) or kWh/m³"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "pressure ratio (discharge/inlet absolute)",
                                                "typical_range": "2-4 per centrifugal stage; 3-12 per reciprocating stage; overall plant ratios from ~2 to >200",
                                                "unit": "dimensionless"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "rotational speed",
                                                "typical_range": "500-1800 min⁻¹ industrial reciprocating; 1500-3600 min⁻¹ screws; 5 000-50 000+ min⁻¹ centrifugals and turbochargers",
                                                "unit": "min⁻¹ (rpm)"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "discharge temperature",
                                                "typical_range": "80-200 °C typical after a stage before cooling; limited by oil, seals, and gas stability",
                                                "unit": "°C"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "sound pressure level at 1 m",
                                                "typical_range": "60-85 dB(A) packaged/enclosed; >90 dB(A) unenclosed industrial machines",
                                                "unit": "dB(A)"
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-measurements-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards",
                                        "name": "Failure modes and hazards",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Overpressure of the discharge system or receiver if the pressure-relief valve or unload control fails.",
                                            "Oil-flooded screw or reciprocating units contaminating process or breathing air; oil-fire or explosion in the discharge if oil coke/ignites in hot high-pressure air.",
                                            "Liquid slugging in reciprocating and screw machines when condensate or process liquid enters the compression chamber, causing rod/valve or rotor damage.",
                                            "Surge (flow reversal) in centrifugal and axial compressors, with vibration, overheating, and possible impeller damage.",
                                            "Loss of cooling water or aftercooler fouling, raising discharge temperature and degrading oil and seals.",
                                            "Receiver or piping rupture; stored compressed-gas energy is a blast/fragmentation hazard.",
                                            "Noise-induced hearing loss and vibration injury at unenclosed machines.",
                                            "Asphyxiation or toxic exposure if a process-gas compressor leaks into a confined space; oxygen enrichment fire risk from oxygen compressors.",
                                            "Stall and rotating stall in axial compressors (aero engines), leading to thrust loss or mechanical damage."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-regional-variation",
                                        "name": "Regional variation",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "North America commonly quotes pressure in psig and flow in scfm; ISO/metric practice uses bar(g) or kPa and m³/min FAD referred to ISO 1217 inlet conditions.",
                                            "EU plants fall under PED for receivers and often ISO 8573 air-quality classes; US general industry uses OSHA air-receiver rules and ASME Section VIII stamping.",
                                            "API 617/618/619 dominate oil-and-gas procurement worldwide; general manufacturing more often buys ISO 1217-rated packaged screws.",
                                            "UK/Ireland 'compressor' in everyday speech often means the workshop air compressor; the same word in broadcast/audio means a dynamics processor (different thing).",
                                            "China GB and EU Ecodesign / energy-label rules set minimum package efficiencies for standard air compressors that the US does not match one-for-one."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                                        "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "name": "fan / blower",
                                                "difference": "A fan or blower moves gas against a small pressure rise (typically well below 1 bar); a compressor is specified when the discharge pressure or pressure ratio is high enough that density change and gas work dominate. ISO and trade practice put fans in the same HS heading but treat them as a different machine class."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "vacuum pump",
                                                "difference": "A vacuum pump reduces pressure below atmosphere on the inlet side; a compressor raises pressure above the inlet, usually discharging above atmosphere. The same positive-displacement geometry can be either, distinguished by duty and porting, not by the rotor shape alone."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "pump (liquid)",
                                                "difference": "A pump is built for incompressible liquid; a compressor is built for gas. Cavitation vs. surge, and the presence of a significant density change, separate the duties."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "turbocharger / supercharger",
                                                "difference": "These are compressors applied to an engine intake. The neighbour is the application name; the test is whether the machine is an engine-boosting stage (driven by exhaust turbine or mechanically) versus a standalone process or plant compressor."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "audio dynamic-range compressor",
                                                "difference": "An electronic or software signal processor that reduces dynamic range. Not a gas machine; Wikidata Q178048 versus Q23586. If it has no gas path, it is not this object."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "pressure regulator / reducer",
                                                "difference": "A regulator drops pressure from a stored high-pressure source without adding shaft work; a compressor adds work to raise pressure."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "expander / turbine",
                                                "difference": "An expander extracts work while gas pressure falls; a compressor consumes work while pressure rises. Same family of turbomachines, opposite energy sign."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of compressor this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Does the registry intend this entry to cover every gas and vapour compressor mechanism, including refrigeration and vacuum-service applications, or are some assigned to neighbouring entries?",
                "Which classification authority should govern ambiguous compressor, blower and fan boundaries in this catalogue?",
                "Should packaged coolers, separators, lubrication equipment and controls be owned here or linked as independent registered things?",
                "Which manufacturer documents and applicable engineering requirements will establish mechanism-specific operating limits and permissible actions for each instance?",
                "What minimum instrumentation and evidence quality are required to distinguish degraded performance from changed inlet conditions, control settings or measurement error?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 11,
                "findings": 18,
                "questions": 28
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "device, machine or tool",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a compressor, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a compressor, assess whether it can safely deliver its required gas-compression duty, and determine which operating or maintenance actions are permitted.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "material",
                "origin": "manufactured",
                "agency": "inert",
                "mobility": "varies"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: centrifugal compressor, hydrogen compressor, compressor stall, diaphragm compressor, swash plate compressor, reciprocating compressor, cell compressor, linear compressor, guided rotor compressor, Vane compressor, Hydraulic compressor, scroll compressor.",
                "19 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a compressor, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Mobility varies between examples.",
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [
                {
                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "centrifugal compressor",
                        "hydrogen compressor",
                        "compressor stall",
                        "diaphragm compressor",
                        "swash plate compressor",
                        "reciprocating compressor",
                        "cell compressor",
                        "linear compressor",
                        "guided rotor compressor",
                        "Vane compressor",
                        "Hydraulic compressor",
                        "scroll compressor"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 19 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one compressor from another, and a compressor from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a compressor sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a compressor from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "form-and-composition",
                        "name": "Form, composition and condition",
                        "description": "What a compressor is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.",
                        "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "form-and-dimensions",
                                "name": "Form and dimensions",
                                "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "measurable-dimensions",
                                        "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units",
                                        "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "material-and-composition",
                                "name": "Material and composition",
                                "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "parts-and-materials",
                                        "name": "Parts and materials",
                                        "description": "What a compressor is built from and which parts are replaceable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "condition-and-integrity",
                                "name": "Condition and integrity",
                                "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition, damage and health",
                                        "description": "How the condition of a compressor is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "place-and-movement",
                        "name": "Place and movement",
                        "description": "Where a compressor is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).",
                        "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "location-and-placement",
                                "name": "Location and placement",
                                "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "position-and-frame",
                                        "name": "Position, container and reference frame",
                                        "description": "Where a compressor is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "movement-and-transfer",
                                "name": "Movement and transfer",
                                "description": "How a compressor is carried, installed or relocated.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "movement-events",
                                        "name": "Movement events and constraints",
                                        "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a compressor passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a compressor between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a compressor, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a compressor is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "function-and-principle",
                        "name": "Function and operating principle",
                        "description": "What compressor is for and how it achieves it.",
                        "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "intended-function",
                                "name": "Intended function",
                                "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "function-record",
                                        "name": "Function, principle and variants",
                                        "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What function does compressor perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "capacity-and-rating",
                                "name": "Capacity and rating",
                                "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "ratings",
                                        "name": "Ratings and their conditions",
                                        "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "ratings-q01",
                                                "text": "What ratings characterise compressor, in what units, and under what stated conditions?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "ratings-q02",
                                                "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "operation-and-state",
                        "name": "Operation, controls and state",
                        "description": "How compressor is operated and what state it is in right now.",
                        "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "controls-and-modes",
                                "name": "Controls and modes",
                                "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "control-surface",
                                        "name": "Control surface and interlocks",
                                        "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "control-surface-q01",
                                                "text": "What controls and modes does compressor have, and what does each change?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "control-surface-q02",
                                                "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "condition-and-maintenance",
                                "name": "Condition and maintenance",
                                "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "service-record",
                                        "name": "Condition, service and consumables",
                                        "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "service-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What consumables and service does compressor need, at what interval, and on whose authority?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "service-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "kind-model-unit",
                        "name": "Kind, model and unit",
                        "description": "Whether a claim about compressor is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.",
                        "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "level-of-reference",
                                "name": "Level of reference",
                                "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "level-rules",
                                        "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit",
                                        "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "Which facts about compressor hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "standards-and-conformity",
                                "name": "Standards and conformity",
                                "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "conformity",
                                        "name": "Standards, marks and attestation",
                                        "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "conformity-q01",
                                                "text": "Which standards govern compressor, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "conformity-q02",
                                                "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a compressor came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a compressor and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a compressor is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a compressor, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a compressor, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a compressor is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 8,
                "layers": 17,
                "findings": 19,
                "questions": 51
            }
        }
    }
}