Hi kpt,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Equipment is a work resource like a human in that you assign work
(machine-hours?) to it. A material resource is of the kind that you have a
limited quantity that you gradually use up. So treat equipment as if they
were human.
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials