Objects to change within a manufacturing enterprise can be products, technological or logistical processes, parts of the manufacturing facilities or a company’s organization.

Schleipen, M., Lüder, A., Sauer, O., Flatt, H., & Jasperneite, J. (2015). Requirements and concept for Plug-and-Work, at - Automatisierungstechnik, 63(10), 801-820. [DOI]

A process represents changes to a product that occur during production. The network of all processes and their relations results in possible process plans or process chains.

J. Pfrommer, M. Schleipen and J. Beyerer, "PPRS: Production skills and their relation to product, process, and resource," 2013 IEEE 18th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), Cagliari, 2013, pp. 1-4 [DOI]

Totality of initial state Sa, final state Sb, and a transition t from Sa to Sb. The transition itself can be represented as a set of processes. A transition must either be deliberately triggered (Action) or occurs due to conditions that have been reached (Event).

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