The Record
The Composite Equipment Passport
A power wheelchair can include a base, controller, seating system, input device, batteries, charger, and other fitted parts. A base model alone does not establish the complete configuration of the equipment in front of the reader. A walker or cane may need only identity, condition context, documents, and history; a lift or adjustable bed may need a deeper parts record.
The passport records the parts, how each was established, and what nobody has established yet.
Identity versus description
Selecting a part from the catalog identifies it. Typing what is written on the shroud describes it. Both are worth recording and they are never treated as equivalent, because notice reasoning requires sufficiently specific recorded identity.
Evidence and provenance
Every claim carries how it was established (told to us, read off a label, taken from an invoice, physically inspected) and whether someone qualified has reviewed it. Nobody reviews their own claim.
Unknown is an answer
When a safety notice turns on a detail nobody recorded, the record says it cannot tell, not that the equipment is fine. Rounding an unanswered question down to reassurance is the specific failure this product exists to prevent.
It travels
A printable technical summary for the bench, and a shareable link that needs no account on the other end. The record survives the person who made it and the organization that held the equipment.