The key difference between equipment and materials is that materials form the actual product and are the parts, components, ingredients and raw materials that become a part of the product whereas equipment refers to the tools, machinery, devices that help create the product.
The most telling difference I can think of is that a tool’s inherent nature remains (mostly, or at least not permanently) unchanged in the processes it’s used for and is used to bring about a change in a process/measure something that changes. For example, a hammer, wrench or a weighing balance would be a tool since it is used to bring about a change but does not get changed in the process.
A material is something that is used for a process but gets changed either temporarily or permanently and is what the process is being carried out on by a tool. But like most else, there are some grey areas. For example, when you hammer a nail into a wall, you could say that both the hammer and nail are tools and the wall is the material since only the wall gets permanently changed (deformed) in the process. You could call the nail both a tool and a material because no visible property of it gets changed permanently (if you hammer straight enough) and it is used to bring about a change in the wall but by my definition it is also a material because there are microscopic changes that occur when it is being hammered
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The key difference between equipment and materials is that materials form the actual product and are the parts, components, ingredients and raw materials that become a part of the product whereas equipment refers to the tools, machinery, devices that help create the product.
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The most telling difference I can think of is that a tool’s inherent nature remains (mostly, or at least not permanently) unchanged in the processes it’s used for and is used to bring about a change in a process/measure something that changes. For example, a hammer, wrench or a weighing balance would be a tool since it is used to bring about a change but does not get changed in the process.
A material is something that is used for a process but gets changed either temporarily or permanently and is what the process is being carried out on by a tool. But like most else, there are some grey areas. For example, when you hammer a nail into a wall, you could say that both the hammer and nail are tools and the wall is the material since only the wall gets permanently changed (deformed) in the process. You could call the nail both a tool and a material because no visible property of it gets changed permanently (if you hammer straight enough) and it is used to bring about a change in the wall but by my definition it is also a material because there are microscopic changes that occur when it is being hammered
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