> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.assetinfinity.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Asset settings > Criticality, asset types and categories, meter types, manufacturers, models and relationship types. The asset settings screen Configure these **before** loading assets. Reclassifying a thousand machines afterwards is possible and tedious. ## Criticality How much it matters when a machine stops. The scale drives: * The **priority** of work raised against the asset. * How **routing** ranks candidates for that work. * How **Reliability** weighs a failure. Each level carries a rank and a label. Three or four levels is usually enough — a nine-point scale sounds precise and gets used as three. ## Asset types What kind of thing it is: pump, motor, compressor, generator, conveyor. Types are how a [maintenance plan](/maintenance/plan-builder) describes its scope — *every centrifugal pump at this site* — so a well-chosen type list is what makes plans maintain themselves as the plant changes. ## Asset categories A second axis, independent of type: rotating, static, electrical, instrumentation, mobile. Used for grouping and reporting. ## Meter types What you count on a machine, and in what unit. | Setting | Meaning | | -------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | **Name** | Run hours, cycles, kilometres, temperature | | **Unit** | h, cycles, km, °C | | **Cumulative** | Whether it only ever goes up | A **cumulative** meter never decreases — a reading below the last one is a mistake or a replaced counter, and the product will say so. A point-in-time meter moves freely. Meter types are what meter-based [triggers](/maintenance/plan-builder) name. See [meters and readings](/assets/meters). ## Manufacturers and models Who made it and which model. Worth keeping tidy: models are what parts compatibility and warranty terms hang off, and three spellings of the same manufacturer make both useless. A model can carry its expected life and its standard maintenance interval, which gives new assets a sensible starting point. ## Asset relationship types How assets relate beyond parent and child — *feeds*, *is backed up by*, *is interlocked with*. These describe dependency rather than containment: knowing that stopping one pump takes a line down is different from knowing which building it is in. ## Related topics - [Setting up the plant](/setup/overview.md) - [The asset register](/assets/register.md) - [Creating an organisation](/setup/sign-up.md) - [Meters and readings](/assets/meters.md) - [Inventory settings](/config/inventory.md)