technical process
Let an agent explain technical processes and how they are specified and controlled, help describe and improve a specific process, and distinguish technical from natural and business processes.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a technical process is.
Concept
Definition and kinds.
Concept
Concept.
- What is a technical process, and how do batch, continuous, data and development processes differ? definition
- Is a technical, natural, business or legal process meant? boundary
Specific
A specific process.
Specific
Specific process.
- How does this process, such as plastification or high harmonic generation, work, and what are its inputs and outputs? definition
- Which entry fits it? action
Model Describing processes.
Specify
Specification.
Specify
Specification.
- How can this process be specified with steps, parameters, controls and tolerances? action
- Which notations and diagrams are used? provenance
Control
Process control.
Control
Control.
- How is the process monitored and controlled, and how are deviations handled? action
- Which standards apply? provenance
Improve Improving processes.
Improve
Improvement methods.
Improve
Improvement.
- How can the process be improved for quality, cost and throughput, using methods such as lean or statistical control? action
- Which metrics matter? measurement
Safety
Process safety.
Safety
Safety.
- Which safety and environmental rules apply to this process? provenance
- Is there an incident now? boundary
Learn Teaching and history.
Teach
Teaching process engineering.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can technical processes be taught with case studies? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
History
History.
History
History.
- How did process engineering and process thinking develop? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.PRC
- Other names and narrower kinds
- batch processing, plastification, high harmonic generation, product development process, artificial reproduction, data transformation, capacity optimization, helical extrusion, pharmaceutical process, biomass conversion, hybridization, document conversion
What it is Filled
A planned sequence of operations by which materials, energy or information are transformed in industry, engineering or computing, such as batch processing, plastification, data transformation, product development processes, artificial reproduction techniques and physical processes harnessed technically such as high harmonic generation; technical processes are specified, controlled and improved through engineering and quality methods.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain technical processes and how they are specified and controlled, help describe and improve a specific process, and distinguish technical from natural and business processes.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Engineered
- Specified and controlled
- Improvable
- Cross-domain
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Change parameters of a running industrial process without authorization.
- Disable interlocks, alarms or safety steps to speed up a process.
- Report a process as within specification when measurements show it is not.
- Disclose a confidential process specification to people outside its owner.
Only with a human decision
- Starting, stopping or changing a process that can endanger people or the environment.
- Releasing a product made under a deviation.
May
- Document, monitor and report the steps and parameters of a process it is authorized to observe.
- Flag deviations from the specified process to its operator.
Moral aspects Filled
- Badly controlled processes injure workers and release harm into communities.
- Process knowledge is often a trade secret and its owner relies on discretion.
Who is affected
- Process workers
- Neighbouring communities
- Users of the products
Owners Filled
Steward
The operator of the plant or system that runs the process.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q3249551 - registry parent class
related
- process - category
- refining - an industrial process
- action - natural processes contrast
- water treatment - an engineered process
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.technical-process
- Wikidata: Q500669 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500669)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Planned transformation of materials, energy or information
- Engineered and controlled
- Natural processes occur without human design
- Not physical as a category; plants, machines and workflows.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain technical process concepts
- describe and model a specific process
- support control and improvement
- distinguish from other process senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Process deviations and defects
- Safety incidents
- Poorly specified processes
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Process engineering and quality management standards
- Safety regulations for industrial processes
- Data processing regulations where personal data is involved
Context of use required Filled
- Engineered transformations.
- manufacturing processes such as plastification
- batch and continuous processes
- data and information processes
- development processes such as product development
- laboratory and biomedical technical processes
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q500669: technical process - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Process (engineering) - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each process family be a separate entry?
- How should process standards be linked?
- How should modelling notations be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q500669/spec.json