<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Since pumps have been a manufactured commodity for about 400 years ( <a href="https://www.worldpumps.com/general-processing/features/a-brief-history-of-pumps/">https://www.worldpumps.com/general-processing/features/a-brief-history-of-pumps/ </a>) there is an abundance of existing typologies and taxonomies dealing with pumps. If the goal is a general tagging scheme that can further be refined when needed to more detailed descriptions, there is a fairly low delta from a complete scheme compared to an incomplete one which will grow by random accretion. See 
IEEE GlobalSpec's Engineering360 <a href="https://www.globalspec.com/pfdetail/pumps/types">https://www.globalspec.com/pfdetail/pumps/types<br></a></div><div>There are public domain classification systems available also, like 
<span class="gmail-st"> <em>UNSPSC</em> # <em>4015151 </em></span>takes you to a 
<span class="gmail-st">Stainless Steel Deep Well Submersible Pump. <font size="2">See  <span style="font-family:sans-serif">the section "
<span style="font-family:sans-serif">2.2. </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Industrial Categorization Schemes and Product Data </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Management in 'Inter-organizational Networks</span>" in </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Integrated Product Ontologies for Inter-</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Organizational Networks' at <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c471/40672c0c2e5a34c098fcd2809185537ee985.pdf">https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c471/40672c0c2e5a34c098fcd2809185537ee985.pdf</a><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail-st"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">
<span class="gmail-ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">As a bonus, the UNSPSC is already translated to English, French, German, 
Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese,
 Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Hungarian.W3C has somewhat detailed instructions how to approach building a typology for the .many other things', one at <a href="https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/w3pm/XGR-w3pm-20091008/#B.12">https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/w3pm/XGR-w3pm-20091008/#B.12</a> , there are similar simpler cookbooks out there. </span></span>

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