Hi all,
I need your help and consulting in designing database for the following situation:
I'll try to describe the cas obviously
I have 14 machines for parts productions.
All the machines has symbolic table witch is a text file.
The symbolic file consists of three colomns:
Operand: The physical name of a machine electrical device. (e.g of electrical device I 19.0)
Symbol : Symbol of the electrical device. (e.g B201)
Comment: English description of the device.
Example of the symbolic table:
Operand Symbol Description
I 19.0 B 201 Photo cell sensor
I 19.1 B 201 Inductive sensor ...

Now my case:
I want to build Ms. Access database of all the machines that consist of:
1. each machine has table of the text file symbolic table.
2. I want to link each table to internal Access table that has description of each operand in my language,and not in English.

In principle,this is the case, but I think about some points I have doubts:
1. there are many operands in the machine that are the same in their description, so I think it's efficient to make internal table for each machine.
2. How, can I aggregate all the operands that has the same description,e.g: I19.0 machine 20, I18.2 machine 21 , I 22.5 machine 14 hase the same description, so my language desription will be the same.

I hope you understand my target.
I hope also you help me with designing the database in the correct way.

Best regards...

Here's a possible solution: