The system serial number contains all or most of the following fields of information: *
Year: year of manufacture
Week: week of manufacture
Plant: manufacturing location
Product: type of system manufactured
Software :Beginning in July 1997, systems manufactured with
Shop Floor Execution use C up to fff units/week and
D if more than fff units/week are built.
The Shop Floor System did not use this field.
Build number :alphanumeric or hexadecimal build number