physical unit

IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/PhysicalUnit

Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/biopharma/ManufacturingSystemOrganization/

SubClass Of: work unit

Class Hierarchy

owl:Thingbfo:entitybfo:continuantbfo:independent continuantbfo:material entitybfo:object aggregatework unitphysical unit

Definition

work unit that carries out an operation or unit procedure

Explanatory Notes

ISA-88: collection of associated equipment modules and/or control modules that can carry out one or more major processing activities In rare cases, a unit can carry out an entire procedure. Since a procedure is associated with process cell, this should be modeled as a process cell having a single unit as its member part and then carrying a procedure.

Examples

  • a vessel that can carry out a fermentation; a ribbon blender, double cone blender, or V blender that can perform a variety of blending or mixing operations; an evaporative crystallizer or cooling crystallizer; a spray dryer or tray dryer; a shell and tube heat exchanger; a distillation tower; a fixed-bed catalytic reactor; and a flash unit

Adapted From

  • ISA 88 Part 1

Primitive Class

This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.

Primitive Rationale

This term is expected to remain primitive, as identifying a set of necessary conditions that consistently hold and align with the given sufficient condition is challenging.

Formal Axioms

First-Order Logic Axioms

LA1:PhysicalUnit(x) → WorkUnit(x) ∧ ¬∃y(PhysicalUnit(y) ∧ hasMemberPartAtSomeTime(x, y))
LA2: WorkUnit(x) ∧ ∃y (isCarrierOfAtSomeTime(x, y) ∧ (RecipeOperation(y) ∨ RecipeUnitProcedure(y))) → PhysicalUnit(x)

Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms

LA1: if x is a ‘physical unit’, then x is a ‘work unit’ and x does not have as a ‘member part at some time’ any other ‘physical unit’

LA2: if x is a ‘work unit’ that ‘is carrier of at some time’ some ‘recipe operation’ or ‘recipe unit procedure’, then x is a ‘physical unit’

Description Logic

SubClassOf: constr:WorkUnit

SubClassOf: bfo:has_member_part only not constr:PhysicalUnit

constr:WorkUnit and bfo:is_carrier_of some (constr:RecipeOperation or constr:RecipeUnitProcedure) SubClassOf: constr:PhysicalUnit