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 resource is a hardware or software entity involved in process execution. The set of resources and their relations result in the plant topology.

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]

Means that are necessary to fulfil a task. Resources have capabilities and skills. They belong to a resource type.

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