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 UK_Defence concept of a system breakdown in terms of PLCS model elements (templates, entities, and reference data).

This information object represents the hierarchical structure of systems of a product .

The definition of the system breakdown object is: This information object represents the hierarchical structure of systems of a product .

Figure 1 — Graphical Representation for Business Object System Breakdown

Attribute name	Attribute description	Attribute type	Optionality
description	This attribute provides the description of the breakdown.	Intrinsic	Mandatory
id	This attribute provides the identification information of the breakdown.	Identifier	Mandatory
Identifier.id	This is the value of the id attribute of the Identifier applied to the System Breakdown.	intrinsic	Mandatory
Identifier.type	This attribute is the type associated with the id of the Identifier given to the System Breakdown. This must be one of the classes provided.	System_breakdown_identification_code	Mandatory
Identifier.source_organization	This attribute is the value representing the source organization that provides the id of the Identifier given to the System Breakdown. This value is assumed to be a type of Organization_identification_code.	Organization_identification_code	Mandatory
name	This attribute provides the name information of the breakdown.	Intrinsic	Mandatory
Related Product Design	This attribute identifies the design information associated with the breakdown.	Product Design	Mandatory
type	This attribute provides the type information of the system breakdown.	Intrinsic	Mandatory
version	This attribute identifies the version of the breakdown.	Intrinsic	Mandatory

Table 1 — System Breakdown attribute details

The following input parameters are defined for this template:

The following reference parameters are defined for this template:

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

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

%^target = $system_breakdown.syst_bkdn%

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

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

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

%^target = $system_breakdown.syst_bkdn_vn%

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

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

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

%^target = $system_breakdown.bkdwn_of%

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

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.

/representing_system_breakdown(
    id=@id,
    id_class_name='System_breakdown_identification_code',
    id_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    id_owner=@source_organization,
    id_owner_class_name='Organization_identification_code',
    id_owner_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    bkdn_type=@type,
    bkdn_type_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    vn_id=@version,
    vn_id_class_name='Version_identification_code',
    vn_id_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    vn_id_owner=@source_organization,
    vn_id_owner_class_name='Organization_identification_code',
    vn_id_owner_ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence')/

-- assign ref parameters
%^syst_bkdn = $representing_system_breakdown.sys_bkdn%
%^syst_bkdn_vn = $representing_system_breakdown.sys_bkdn_vn%
%^bkdwn_of = $representing_system_breakdown.bkdn_of%
^bkdwn_of.of_view -> @related_product_design

-- name
/identifier(
    ID=@name,
    source_organization=@source_organization,
    type='System_breakdown_name',
    items=^syst_bkdn)/

-- description
/assigning_descriptor(
    descr=@description,
    class_name='System_breakdown',
    ecl_id='urn:plcs:rdl:uk_defence',
    is_assigned_to=^syst_bkdn)/

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

/system_breakdown(id='SB-Torn-GR4', source_organization='6421', name='System breakdown Tornado GR4', description='Breakdown of a Tornado GR4 in terms of its systems', type='System_breakdown', version='A', related_product_design='@80')/

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

The instance diagram in Figure 5 shows the graphic symbol for the template that is to be used in other instance diagrams. The example template is: