Building blocks for describing process flows
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsJuergen Scholl, Dirk Rohdemann, Thomas Vomhof
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Abstract
A method for describing a process flow includes receiving a first root-independent building block and a second root-independent building block, receiving assembly instructions for assembling the first building block and the second building block to describe the process flow, and linking the first building block to the second building block in accordance with the assembly instructions. The first building block describes a first activity and a second building block describes a second activity. The first activity and the second activity correspond to portions of the process flow.
Claims26
A method for describing a process flow, comprising:
- receiving a first root-independent building block and a second root-independent building block, the first building block describing a first activity and the second building block describing a second activity, the first activity and the second activity corresponding to portions of the process flow;
- receiving assembly instructions for assembling the first building block and the second building block to describe the process flow;
- and
- linking the first building block to the second building block in accordance with the assembly instructions.
A method for manufacturing a product, comprising:
- receiving a description of a process flow for manufacturing the product, the description formed using a root-independent building block describing an activity corresponding to a portion of the process flow;
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- manufacturing the product in accordance with the received description.
A computer program product, tangibly stored on machine readable media, for describing a process flow, the product comprising instructions to cause a processor to:
- insert a root-independent building block into a recipe having a root and describing a process flow, the building block describing an activity corresponding to a portion of the process flow described by the recipe.
A computer program product, tangibly stored on machine readable media, for describing a first process flow and a second process flow, the product comprising instructions to cause a processor to:
- access a root-independent building block describing an activity corresponding to portions of the first process flow and the second process flow;
- insert the building block into a first description of the first process flow;
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- insert the building block into a second description of the second process flow.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.