| Business context:— MoDAvDEX | Date: 2008/01/11 17:06:47 Revision: 1.3 |
A "business context" is a context in which a specialized vocabulary is employed. This may be an individual organization, a larger business community, or a particular project (or initiative).
A number of DEXs (Business DEXs) are identified within a given business context and each DEX is defined using the specialized vocabulary of its business context. These are listed in Business DEXs section.
The UK MoD is increasingly engaged in incentivized availability or support contracts in which the support of complex assets such as aircraft and aero engines is provided by the manufacturers (OEM) of the asset rather than the UK MoD. In such contracts, there is a requirement for the UK MoD to provide the manufactures with information about all maintenance activities that have been undertaken by the UK MoD organizations such as the RAF. In accordance with MoD policy, the information is exchanged using the ISO 10303-239 Product Life Cycle Support standard (PLCS). This is illustrated in Figure 1. This provides a high level architecture showing typical exchange scenarios between MoD Engineering and Asset management (E&AM) systems, such as LITS, used to record the configuration of the aircraft and the work done to it, and MoD industry partners.
This context specifies how the UK MoD provides aviation maintenance data using ISO 10303-239 PLCS. The specification is provided the business DEX: MoDAvDEX.MoDAvDEX. This details how the OASIS DEX: aviation_maintenance is to be used by the MoD.
Section Business DEXs lists the DEXs that have been defined in this context. A number of implementation assumptions have been made when defining the DEXs. These are detailed in the following sections.
The reference data library used by the the DEXs in this context is: urn:plcs:rdl:LITS.
Product_view_definition and all of its sub types have View_definition_context that defines the life cycle view. This is defined in the templates: representing_product_as_realized and representing_part The template parameters identifying the life cycle have been defaulted to:
In PLCS, all identifiers must be provided in the context of the organization that owns them. In all the templates defined in this context, "LITS" is assumed to be the owner of the identifier.
The following Business DEXs have been defined in this context:
The following templates have been defined in this context:
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