NOTE The template has been defined in the context of UK_Defence. Refer to the business context for details of related templates.

NOTE An explanation of a template and the associated instantiation path is provided in the Template overview section.

This template describes how to represent the specification of a component of the support domain. The source of the current specifications is JSP 886, where they are referred to as "ILS elements".

The support component business object is used by those UK_Defence Data Exchange Specifications that require information about the specification of a component of the support domain.

Figure 1 — Graphical Representation for Business Object Support Component

Support Component:

The definition of a Support Component object is: Data about the specification of a component of the support domain.

Attribute name	Attribute description	Attribute type	Optionality
Description	This is the description of the support component.	Intrinsic	Mandatory
ID	This is the Identifier of the support component.	Identifier	Mandatory
Name	This is the name of the support component. Typical components (distilled from JSP 886 Volume 7 Part 1) include: "Asset management" "Commercial and contract management" "Computer and software support" "Configuration management" "Disposal" "Environmental impact" "Facilities, infrastructure and services" "Information management" "Interface with design" "Maintainability engineering" "Maintenance engineering" "Manpower and human factors" "Obsolescence" "Packaging, handling, storage and transportation" "Quality management" "Reliability engineering" "Risk management" "Safety" "Supply support" "Support and test equipment" "Sustainability" "Technical data, documentation and information" "Technology management" "Through life support performance monitoring" "Through life costing" "Through life planning" "Training and training equipment / facilities" "Whole life costing"	Intrinsic	Mandatory

Table 1 — Support Componentattribute details

The following input parameters are defined for this template:

The following reference parameters are defined for this template:

Allow the Document entity instantiated in this path to be referenced when this template is used.

Note: The Document entity can be referenced in a template path by:

%^target = $support_component.supp_comp%

where target is the parameter to which the Document is bound.

The following parameter combinations specify a uniqueness constraint:

Unique constraint: Support_component

Each instance of the entity (Document) within the data set shall be uniquely identified by a combination of the following parameters on this template (support_component) namely: ID, name.
The instance is referenced by the following template parameter: supp_comp.

The instantiation path shown below specifies the entities that are to be instantiated by the template.

A description of templates and the syntax for the instantiation path is provided in the Templates Help/Information section.

-- Instantiate a document
/representing_document(
    doc_id=@ID,
    doc_id_class_name='Support_comp_identification_code',
    doc_id_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    doc_org_id=@source_organization,
    doc_org_id_class_name='Identifier_owner',
    doc_org_id_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    doc_vn_id='/NULL',
    doc_vn_id_class_name='/NULL',
    doc_vn_id_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    doc_vn_org_id='/NULL',
    doc_vn_org_id_class_name='/NULL',
    doc_vn_org_id_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    domain='Product_life_cycle_support',
    domain_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:std',
    life_cycle_stage='Support_stage',
    life_cycle_stage_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:std')/
%^supp_comp = $representing_document.document%

-- Name (mandatory)
/identifier(
    ID=@name,
    source_organization=@source_organization,
    type='Support_component_name',
    items=^supp_comp)/

-- Instantiate a description
/assigning_descriptor(
    descr=@description,
    class_name='Support_component_description',
    ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    is_assigned_to=^supp_comp)/

The instance diagram in Figure 4 shows an example of the EXPRESS entities and templates that are instantiated by the template:

/support_component(name='this is the name of the support component', ID='SC123', source_organization='UK_Defence', description='this is the description of the support component')/

(an illustration of the consolidated support_component template is shown in Figure 5 below.)