planned process

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

Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/Core/

SubClass Of: bfo:process

Class Hierarchy

owl:Thingbfo:entitybfo:occurrentbfo:processplanned process

Direct subclasses:

Definition

process that is prescribed by a plan specification

Semi-Formal Definition:

every instance of ‘planned process’ is defined as exactly an instance of ‘process’ that is ‘prescribed by’ some ‘plan specification’

Explanatory Notes

  1. ‘Planned’ is here functioning as a specifier, rather than as a modifier analogous to ‘cancelled’ or ‘averted’. Therefore, to say that a process is planned is not to say that it has not yet taken place. Rather, it is to say that it is (was or will have been) protocol-driven, instruction-driven, command-driven, or software-driven, or in some combination thereof.

  2. ‘Planned’ means ‘protocol driven’. Protocols may be written, spoken, or simply thought – as when upon waking up, we plan, for instance, what to eat for breakfast.

Examples

  • A tire manufacturing process occurs as prescribed by a manufacturing plan specification.

Counter-Examples

  • unexpected failure events; unexpected malfunctioning of a machine; safety occurrence (that lacks explicit plan specifications);

Adapted From

  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000011

Formal Axioms

First-Order Logic Definition

PlannedProcess(x) ↔ Process(x) ∧ ∃s(PlanSpecification(s) ∧ prescribes(s,x))

Description Logic

EquivalentTo: bfo:process and constr:prescribedBy some constr:PlanSpecification

SubClassOf: bfo:process