| Business DEX (UK_Defence016):— schedule | Date: 2010/03/12 11:20:28 Revision: 1.11 |
The business objects introduced in the Business Information Overview section are modelled in PLCS through a set of business templates. Most business templates are based upon one or more generic PLCS templates. They may be specializations of a PLCS template using one or more classifications or characterizations to capture the required information, whilst some rename and use restricted parameters.
This section summarizes the mappings of the business objects to the corresponding templates.
|
Business Object |
Business Object Definition |
Business Template(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Message | This information object represents a communication of the Configuration Management Breakdown. The method by which the message is communicated is various. | UK_Defence.message |
| Record | This information object represents a permanent statement for preserving the memory or knowledge of facts, activities or events. | UK_Defence.record |
| Activity | This information object represents an actual activity that is performed on specific dates. The method for carrying out an activity may be defined by a related task definition. | UK_Defence.activity |
| Activity Composition | This information object represent the relationship between parent and child activities in an activity decomposition hierarchy. | UK_Defence.activity_composition |
| Activity Dependency | This information object represents the relationship between an activity and a predecessor activity that must be completed, before the activity can be started. | UK_Defence.activity_dependency |
| Anomaly | This information object represents an actual anomaly of an individual product. | UK_Defence.anomaly |
| Change Effectivity | This information object represents the effectivity of a change to the product to which it is applicable. | UK_Defence.change_effectivity |
| Document | This information object represents reference material that follows a formal change approval mechanism. |
UK_Defence.document
and UK_Defence.related_documents |
| Document Association | This information object represents the association of a Document with another information object. | UK_Defence.document_association |
| Facility | This information object represents an installation providing one or more functional capabilities necessary
to provide support to one or more equipment programmes, including supply support.
NOTE A facility may be permanently fixed and located at a site (such as a building, runway, dry dock, road, bridge, railway ie. things not designed to be moved). NOTE A facility may be mobile (such as a mobile workshop, portakabin, mobile bridge ie. things designed to be portable, but only functional when installed at a location). NOTE A facility may also be part of the end item equipment itself (such as a workshop or hangar on board a ship). |
UK_Defence.facility |
| Justification | This information object represents a justification for a decision or for something having been done. | UK_Defence.justification |
| Location | This information object represents a geographic position. | UK_Defence.location |
| Maintenance Activity | This information object represents an activity that is executed on a product. | UK_Defence.maintenance_activity |
| Nato Item of Supply Specification | This information object represents a specification for a codified item of supply, identified by its Nato Stock Number (NSN). The specification includes the information required to configure and manage the MoD supply chain. | UK_Defence.nato_item_of_supply_specification |
| Observation | This information object represents an observation about or of something, by a person, at a point in time. | UK_Defence.observation |
| Person | This information object represents the information describing a human being. | UK_Defence.person |
| Person or Organization with Qualification | This information object represents the relationship between a person or organization, and the qualifications that they possess. | UK_Defence.person_or_organization_with_qualification |
| Person with Skill | This information object represents the relationship between a person and the skills that they possess. | UK_Defence.person_with_skill |
| Plan | This information object represents a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding or making, developed in advance. It may include the logic through which tasks are combined or otherwise related, their sequence and their resource requirements. | UK_Defence.plan |
| Product | This information object represents the information about physical instances of a Product Design. Individual products are typically identified by a serial number, and batches are typically identified by a batch number. Both of these would be captured by the referenced Identifier information object. | UK_Defence.product |
| Product Design | This information object represents the identification of the aggregated set of information that constitutes the detailed design
of a product.
Product designs can be of any "level" of product, from individual nuts and bolts, up to complete equipments, systems
and platforms.
Product designs are typically identified by a design authority part number, and when fully specified, will have
a detailed drawing/product model
associated with them that contain the level of detail that enables instances of the physical elements of the design
to be manufactured and/or assembled.
Those physical elements will be fully specified by their own Product Design.
Product designs will typically also have associated performance specifications, physical characteristics
(such as dimensions, weight and material specifications), and other charateristics such as cost.
Prior to this level of detail being defined, the product design process may involve specification of functions,
conceptual physical design/general
layout design and identification of spatial zones within the design.
NOTE This information object is not meant to contain the detailed design information objects themselves (the goemetry, topology, dimensions, tolerances, material specification, surface finishes etc). It is meant to act as the single reference point to which all that other information relates. |
UK_Defence.product_design |
| Requirement | This information object represents a statement of need by a person or organization. | UK_Defence.requirement |
| Resource Allocation | This information object represents the allocation of a resource to an activity. | UK_Defence.resource_allocation |
| Schedule | This information object represents the prescribed sequence for the conduct of activities. | UK_Defence.schedule |
| Status Assignment | This information object represents the record of the assignment of a status to a subject. This can be used for example to assign approvals to documents, status to deliveries, or dispositions to design changes (requested, proposed, authorized etc). | UK_Defence.status_assignment |
| Task | This information object represents a type of task that requires to be done. A task may actually be executed one or more times and recorded as an activity. | UK_Defence.task |
| Task List | This information object represents a list of tasks that are important in a particular context. | UK_Defence.task_list |
| Utility | This is data about a utility that is provided at a given facility.
NOTE Utilities include the provision of: electricty, air, gas, water, steam, hydraulics, sewerage, communications - basically fluids, electricity and communications. |
UK_Defence.utility |
Table 2 — Business Objects to Template Mapping table
The key templates that this DEX comprises and the interrelations between those templates are illustrated below:
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