Process concepts
This section will follow the same structure as Chapter 4, Life Cycles, by introducing and discussing Process concepts and developing an Ontology that will form part of a broader MBSE Ontology.
The first few concepts that must be understood are shown in the following figure:
Figure 5.1: An Ontology Definition View for Process concepts
The diagram in Figure 5.1 shows the initial Ontology Definition View for Process concepts, visualized using a SysML block definition diagram.
The main concept in this View is the Process, which describes an approach to doing something or achieving an aim of some description. As can be seen in the preceding figure, the Process is made up of three main elements:
- Activities: An Activity describes a behavioral step that must be performed in order to execute the Process. A typical Process will be made up of a number of these Activities, each of which will have inputs, which are consumed, and outputs, which are...
