Business DEX (UK_Defence010):— system_breakdown Date: 2009/04/16 21:06:14
Revision: 1.4

system_breakdown Business Information Requirements

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

Table 1 — System 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 System breakdown

Figure 2 —  Information Model Overview of the System breakdown

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

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

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