Business DEX (UK_Defence006):— product_assembly_structure Date: 2009/04/16 17:08:27
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product_assembly_structure Business Information Requirements

The information requirements for Product assembly 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 product assembly structure. Product Assembly
The information that identifies a position in a product assembly structure. Assembly Item.location
The information that identifies the type of product assembly structure. Product Assembly.type
The information that identifies the parent of an element in a product assembly structure. Assembly Item Relationship.parent
The information that identifies the children of an element in a product assembly structure. Assembly Item Relationship.child
The information that identifies the quantities of child elements within product assembly structures. Assembly Item, Assembly Item Relationship.quantity
The information that characterizes the elements of a product assembly structure. Assembly Item.related product design
The information that characterizes the relationships between the elements of a product assembly structure. Assembly Item Relationship
The information that characterizes additional identifiers for the elements of a product assembly structure. Assembly Item.id
The information that characterizes the descriptors of elements in a product assembly structure. Assembly Item.description
The information that characterizes the documents associated with the elements of a product assembly structure. Document Association.related document, Document, Document Association.related item, Assembly Item
The information that characterizes the properties associated with elements of a product assembly structure. Assembly Item.related product design
The information that characterizes the approval of product assembly structure and their elements. Status Assignment.assigned status.State, Status Assignment.subject, Assembly Item
The information that defines the permissible configurations of a product assembly structure. Product, Product Assembly, Product Assembly.related product design

Table 1 — Product assembly 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 ProductAssemblyStructure

Figure 2 —  Information Model Overview of the ProductAssemblyStructure

From the information model there are four main objects required to represent a Product assembly structure;

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

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