RE:

[Les Debenham <lad@lsc.co.uk>]

Title: RE:

Modellers all,

Ian Hickman is working with me on implementations and has come up against some brick walls. To put it in context we are working on recording the results of tasks carried out on a product. The activates are recurrent and could be weekly, monthly, (or even recorded automatically at a frequency of 50hz). We need to ensure the results (of the activity) are recorded in context of the planned activity, the parent task, the actual product the activity was carried out on and the date time of the measurement.

Can he achieve his requirements using existing entities or do  we need his new entities?

Advice from the old (experienced?) hands at STEP is urgently requested.

Note:
I have sent this on the OASIS DEX exploder and the old PLCS modellers exploder in case some of you have yet to transfer. Sorry for any duplications this causes.

Please include Ian in your replies as he is not yet on the exploders

Les Debenham
LSC Group Ltd.
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Ian Hickman 
Sent:   01 March 2004 13:38
To:     Les Debenham
Subject:       

I am new to STEP so please forgive any naiveties and a few deliberate simplifications.  The basic problem is that I need to model a series of task activities and their corresponding actual activities. The activities are basically to take measurements of various physical properties of a system e.g. hours run, various pressures, temperatures etc. I have found no way in the STEP model to represent this. I have found something similar for resources (i.e. 'Required_resource_by_resource_item'). I have tried to use this principle to  meet my requirements.

Consider the following:

I need the values.

e.g.

Measured_value
        Value   = 2431234      
        Unit    = Hours

Or

Measured_value
        Value   = 1.8
        Unit    = BAR

I then need to associate the value measured with the item measured

Measured_item   
        Name            = Engine Running total

Or

Measured_item          
        Name            = Inlet Pressure

I need to combine the two i.e.

Measured_value_by_Measured_item     (c.f. Required_resource_by_resource_item!)
        Name                    =  ''
        Measured_value          Measured_value
        Measured_item           Measured_item
e.g.
measured_value (2431234, hours), measured_item (engine running total)

However I note there is not currently such an entity as Measured_value_by_Measured_item





I then need to assign the results to the Activity_Actual (e.g. individual test).

Measured_value_assignment              (c.f. Required_resource_assignment!)
        Assigned_result         Ref Measued_value_by_Measured_item
        item : Activity                 Ref Activity_Actual

e.g.
Assigned result (measured_value (2431234, hours), measured_item (engine running total), Activity_actual (123)




Summary:
To try to illustrate what I am trying to achieve I have invented the following ENTITIES
Measured_item,
Measured_value_by_Measured_item, 
Measured_value_assignment . .    

Are these necessary or is there a better way of doing this?   

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