Production Model

The production model presents a set of resources used to describe a product as a collection of components and the processes applied to those components.

The resource hierarchy provides a modular and layered approach to specifying a variable family of products and their production.

The production model describes activities, such as processes, recipes for making things, and information flows. This model determines how and when the entities described in the other models are used. The production model is also used to describe products that can be produced, as well as the resources (such as equipment and materials), production steps, and processes required to produce them.

The production model is made up of the following elements:

  • The static data models that describe resources and processes, such as process segments, definition segments, and data classes.
  • The data used to associate resources and processes with an output product, as created with work definitions.
  • The runtime data that describes work in progress, including work requests.

Work process and definition segments can be created in a hierarchical structure that allows you to create segments at a very granular level, depending on your business requirements.