Business DEX (UK_Defence008):— functional_breakdown Date: 2009/04/16 15:45:40
Revision: 1.4

functional_breakdown Business Information Requirements

The information requirements for functional 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)

The information that defines a functional breakdown Functional Breakdown
The information that identifies a position in the functional breakdown Function Relationship.id
The information that identifies the type of functional breakdown Functional Breakdown.type
The information that identifies the parent of an element in the functional breakdown Function Relationship.parent
The information that identifies the children of an element in the functional breakdown Function Relationship.child
The information that characterizes the elements of the functional breakdown Function.related product design
The information that characterizes the relationships between the elements of the functional breakdown Function Relationship
The information that characterizes additional identifiers for the elements of the functional breakdown Function.id
The information that describes the function of elements in a functional breakdown Function.description
The information that characterizes the documents associated with the elements of the functional breakdown Document Association.related document, Document, Document Association.related item, Function
The information that characterizes the properties associated with elements of the functional breakdown Function.related product design
The information that characterizes the approval of functional breakdowns and their elements Status Assignment.assigned status.State, Status Assignment.subject, Function

Table 1 — Functional 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 Functional breakdown

Figure 2 —  Information Model Overview of the Functional breakdown

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

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

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