physical_breakdown

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

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

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

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

physical_breakdown Business Information Requirements