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alias: user-guide-asset-directory-index
tags:
- data platform
description: "An Asset Directory organizes assets into independent, structured domain trees within the system"
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# Asset Directory

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An **Asset Directory** represents a unique **Asset** tree structure, which can be seen as a domain to support the organization of different **Assets** in independent structures.

In Critical Manufacturing MES, an **Asset Directory** will provide an ISA-95 inspired structure marked as a Manufacturing Directory, defined upon creation. That ISA-95 inspired structure is fixed and will have a corresponding Manufacturing Data Model structure similar to what can be found in the MES application. There can be multiple **Asset Directories** of other types that can use a free structure, whereas the Manufacturing **Asset Directory** must be a single unique instance.

The Manufacturing **Asset Directory** data model can be seen below:

![Screenshot showing a directory structure for assets in a data platform.](../../images/data_platform_asset_directory_model.png)

!!! note
    Enterprise, Site, Facility, Container, Resource and Device represent different Asset Classes.

Here is an example of a possible Manufacturing **Asset Directory**:

![Screenshot showing an asset directory view with various files and folders listed.](../../images/asset_directory_view.png)

There is a search box that allows you to search for a specific **Asset**. The search works as an incremental search where every character typed into the box will expand or collapse as needed to see all the **Assets** that match the specific search term.