Choosing among similar PRT records during confirmation

Within our assembly line, there are workcenters that contain multiple similar pieces of equipment that are not capacity controlled by the system. For example, a specific operation is carried out by using 1 of 3 identical machines. We would like to be able to record which specific piece of equipment was used at the time of confirmation. Each of the three has its own equipment record yet only one is used to carry out the operation.
What is the best way to structure the routing/workcenter for this requirement? If I assign all 3 equipment records as PRTs on the routing, the system effectively thinks I am using all 3 for the operation. I would like the ability to have visibility to all 3 as being possible and then during confirmation prompt the user to specify which of the actual equipment records was used. Is there any way to capture this during confirmation other than via system enhancement?
Thanks!

I was hoping to model each equipment record as its own PRT rather than as its own work center. Is it not possible to conditionally capture PRT usage independent of work center? Our work center in this context is set up more to track labor costs/capacity and the equipment records are utilized for historical usage reporting purposes (not using PM). We are using our work centers to represent employees rather than machines and am concerned with the amount of data redundancy required if we were to model multiple work centers that are identical other than equipment assignment.

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