Relationships in the Model are used to enhance understanding of the manufacturing process in a few ways: what equipment is involved how materials flow through the equipment, and how other resources or materials ,such as energy, are consumed by the processes. Relationships help create a graphical view of the process. The Process Flow diagrams and Material Flow diagrams illustrate the relationships between equipment instances and material within the plant.
Relationships are built upon semantic triples, also known as triplets or three-part statements. They are a way of representing information in a structured and logical manner. They consist of a subject, predicate, and object, and are used to express relationships between entities and the properties that define them. Storing data in this manner makes creating a graphical representation of the data a natural outcome.
In the platform, standard relationship types are 'Can Feed', 'Can Produce' and 'Can Consume'. These types are provided by the ThinkIQ Base Library.
