Business DEX (UK_Defence011):— configuration_management_breakdown Date: 2009/04/16 15:34:31
Revision: 1.3

configuration_management_breakdown Business Information Requirements

The information requirements for configuration management breakdown structures has been defined within the UK_Defence Scoping Document (Version X). The following table lists the correspondance of Business Objects to those requirements:

Information requirement

Business Object(s)

Information that is used to define the message that performs the transmission of the configuration management breakdown information between the source and destination UK_Defence processes. Message, Record.
The information that defines a configuration management breakdown Configuration Management Breakdown
The information that identifies a position in the configuration management breakdown Configuration Item Relationship.id
The information that identifies the type of configuration management breakdown Configuration Management Breakdown.type
The information that identifies the parent of an element in the configuration management breakdown Configuration Item Relationship.parent
The information that identifies the children of an element in the configuration management breakdown Configuration Item Relationship.child
The information that characterizes the elements of the configuration management breakdown Configuration Management Breakdown.Related Product Design; Configuration_ Item.Configured Item.
The information that characterizes the relationships between the elements of the configuration management breakdown Configuration Item Relationship
The information that characterizes additional identifiers for the elements of the configuration management breakdown Configuration Item.id
The information that describes the elements in a configuration management breakdown Configuration Item.description
The information that characterizes the documents associated with the elements of the configuration management breakdown Document Association.related document, Document, Document Association.related item, Configuration Item or Configuration Management Breakdown
The information that characterizes the properties associated with elements of the configuration management breakdown Property.Property_of, Configuration Item, Configuration Item Relationship or Configuration Management Breakdown.
The information that characterizes the approval of configuration management breakdowns and their elements Status Assignment.Subject, Configuration Item or Configuration Management Breakdown

Table 1 — Configuration Management breakdown information requirements

In terms of business objects, these information requirements are modelled as shown previously in Figure 2.



Figure 2 —  Information Model Overview of the Configuration Management breakdown

Figure 2 —  Information Model Overview of the Configuration Management breakdown

From the information model there are four main objects required to represent a Configuration Management breakdown structure;

There are a number of other objects which may be associated to a breakdown structure;

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