Appliance and a consumable holder in a network

A network comprising a client and an appliance configured to perform an operation cycle on an article using a consumable wherein information associated with the consumable can be exchanged between the client and the appliance across the network, the information including uncompiled data having a description of an ordered collection of steps, actions to be taken by at least one component of the appliance during each step, and conditions under which a current step should transition into a next step in the ordered collection of steps wherein the transition conditions are logic expressions that must be resolvable to a Boolean value, whereby the appliance can build the operation cycle based on the information upon receipt from the client, and perform the built operation cycle related to the consumable.