Business To Manufacturing

Markup Language
Product Definition
Version 6.0 - March 2013
B2MML-ProductDefinition

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Table of Contents

CHANGE HISTORY .............................................................................. 3

SCHEMA SCOPE ................................................................................. 4
Key Information Assumptions ............................................................ 4
ProductDefinition .............................................................................. 5
ManufacturingBill .............................................................................. 5
ProductSegment ................................................................................ 5
Resource Identification ...................................................................... 6
ELEMENT DEFINITIONS....................................................................... 7
TRANSACTION ELEMENTS ................................................................ 14
DIAGRAM CONVENTION .................................................................. 15

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CHANGE HISTORY
Change Date Person Description
V01 7 April 2002 Dennis Brandl Initial release
Dave Emerson
V02 23 Sept 2003 Dennis Brandl • Changed ##any to "Any" element of type
Dave Emerson "AnyType"

V03 26 Aug 2005 Dennis Brandl • Added substitution groups. One group added just
Dave Emerson before each Any element.

V0301 29 Dec 2005 Dennis Brandl • Changed “Value” elements to be 0..unbounded

V04 04 June 2007 Dennis Brandl • Added transaction elements

• Removed choice options in Manufacturing Bill,
material, personnel, and equipment
specifications.
V0401 Oct 2008 Dennis Brandl • Changed version number

V0500 Mar 2011 Dennis Brandl • Updated to match ISA 95.02-2010

• Added Physical Asset elements
• Added material assembly elements
• Removed AnyType
V0600 Aug 2012 D. Brandl Updated MESA Copyright

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SCHEMA SCOPE
This document defines the information about the definition of product information that may be exchanged between
business systems and manufacturing operations systems. This information is based on the data models and attributes
defined in the ANSI/ISA 95.00.02 Enterprise/Control System Integration standard. Contact ISA (The Instrumentation,
System, and Automation Society) for copies of the standard. Additional information on the standard is available at
www.isa.org.

Key Information Assumptions

The data represented in these schemas is derived from the UML model below. This model is defined in the ANSI/ISA
95.00.02 standard. The information model in the figure below is hierarchical with references to, but does not include,
the bill of materials and the bill of resources. The key assumption is that the information will be accessed by a Product
Definition.

Information About
Product Definition Has a reference to >
Has a reference to <
Has a reference to >

Bill of Product Bill of

Product
Resources Production Rule Material
Definition
(External) (External) (External)
Has Has Has Has
associated > associated associated > associated >

May be May have a reference to >

0..n 1..n 0..n 0..n
made
up of Corresponds
Product to Process Manufacturing Bill
has an execution dependency on 0..n Segment 1..n Segment (Item) 0..n
0..n
0..n Is assembled
1..1 0..n
from
Product Is a collection of
Segment
Dependency

0..n 0..n 0..n 0..n 0..n 1..n

Parameter Personnel Equipment Physical Asset Material

Specification Specification Specification Specification Specification 0..n
Is assembled
0..n from
May be made up of
0..n 0..n 0..n 0..n
Personnel Equipment Physical Asset Material
Specification Specification Specification Specification
Property Property Property Property

Model of Exchanged Product Definition Information

This schema uses a common schema for definition of elements that are used in multiple schemas, such as ID,
Description, and Value. See the document defining the Common schema for definition of the common elements.

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ProductDefinition
The main structuring element of the schema definition is ProductDefinition. ProductDefinition is the container object
for exchanged information and includes references to the Product Production Rules, Bill Of Materials, and Bill Of
Resources. The term Product Production Rule is used in ANSI/ISA-95.00.01 to indicate the information that used within
manufacturing to manufacture the product, such as assembly instructions, flow sheets, or recipes. Additional
information exists in the bill of materials, bill of resources, and manufacturing operations systems, but is not defined in
the exchange schemas.

ManufacturingBill
A manufacturing bill identifies a material or material class that is needed for production of the product.
The manufacturing bill includes all uses of the material in production of the product, while the product segment’s
material specification defines just the amount used in a segment of production.
For example: a manufacturing bill may identify 55 Type C left threaded screws, where 20 are used in one product
segment, 20 in another product segment, and 15 used in a third product segment.
ManufacturingBill elements define materials that make up the manufacturing bill. These materials may be identified by
material class or by material definition.

ProductSegment
The product segment information defines what manufacturing personnel, equipment, or material resources are required
for execution of the product segment for a specified quantity of product (e.g.: a standard batch or lot size). It does this
by defining the classes of resources, or in some cases the exact instance of a resource required. For example, an
assembly segment may require 1 assembler for 2 hours and 1 assembly machine for 2 hours. In some industries the
exact assembly machine may have to be specified, such as “AssemblyMachine#1”.
A product segment also defines parameters that may be specified when the segment is executed, such as production
specification as color or manufacturing options.

PersonnelSpecification
PersonnelSpecification elements define the personnel resources, by class or instance, required for production of the
product within a product segment, such as 2 hours of a painter for a paint segment for a lot size of one widget.

EquipmentSpecification
EquipmentSpecification elements define the equipment resources, by class or instance, required for production of the
product within a product segment, such as 2 hours for a paint station for a lot size of one widget.

PhysicalAssetSpecification
PhysicalAssetSpecification elements define the equipment resources, by class or instance, required for production of the
product within a product segment.

MaterialSpecification
MaterialSpecification elements define the material resources, by material class or material definition, required for
production of the product within a product segment, such as 30 Kg of cooking oil (material class) required for the
cooking segment for a lot size of 50 Kg.

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Resource Identification
The schemas follow the ANSI/ISA-95 standard by defining resources by class ID or instance ID, or by defining them by
class ID and a property value that is used to define a subset of the resource. For example, the figure below illustrates
that a segment may require a certain number of milling machine, an equipment class. Other segments may require a
subset of milling machine, such as “Fine” milling machines only. In the first case the class name, “Mill”, is sufficient to
identify the resource required. In the second case the class name, “Mill”, and property name and value, “Spec” and
“Fine”, define the required resource.

Equipment Capability Equipment Capability

- Equipment Class = Mill - Equipment Class = Mill
- Quantity = 8 - Quantity = 8
Milling Machine

Equipment Capability Property

Milling Machine - Spec = Fine Equipment Property
- Quantity = 3 - Spec = Fine

Equipment Capability Property Equipment Property

- Spec = Medium - Spec = Medium
- Quantity = 4

Equipment Capability Property

- Spec = Course Equipment Property
- Quantity = 1 - Spec = Course

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ELEMENT DEFINITIONS

Element/Type Description
ProductInformation Contains a list of product definitions. Includes the location of the scope
ProductInformationType of the information, and the date of publication of the information.

ProductInform ationType

ID

Description

0..∞

Location

ProductInform ation HierarchyScope

PublishedDate

ProductDefinition

0..∞

Extended:ProductInformation

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Element/Type Description
ProductDefinition Contains a product production rule. Includes the location of the scope of
ProductDefinitionType the information, the date of publication of the information, the list of
materials in the manufacturing bill, the identification of the bill material,
the identification of the bill of resources, and the definition of product
segments.

ProductDefinitionType

ID

Version

Description

0..∞

Location

HierarchyScope

PublishedDate

ProductDefinition
ProductProductionRule

BillOfMaterialsID

BillOfResourcesID

ManufacturingBill

0..∞

ProductSegm ent

0..∞

Extended:ProductDefinition

The BillOfMaterialsID in a ProductDefinitionType should contain the ID

of the complete bill of materials in the ERP system. This is usually the
same as the ID of the material, but there are cases where the bill of
material ID can be different. (For example several co-branded products
may have different product IDs but the same bill of materials. There is
either zero or one BillOfMaterialsID
The BillOfMaterialsID identifies the list.

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Element/Type Description
EquipmentSpecification Contains a definition of the equipment resources required for the
EquipmentSpecificationType product segment. Includes the identification of the class or instance of
the resources, the quantity of the resource, and the property
specification if required to identify the resource.
Equipm entClassID

Equipm entID

Description

0..∞

EquipmentSpecificationType
Quantity

0..∞

Equipm entSpecificationProperty

0..∞

Extended:EquipmentSpecification

EquipmentSpecificationProperty Contains a definition of an equipment property required for the product

EquipmentSpecificationPropertyType segment, including the quantity of the resource, and a value used to
identify the subset of the class.
ID

Description

0..∞

Value
Equipm entSpecificationPropert...
0..∞

Quantity

0..∞

Extended:EquipmentSpecificationPro...

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Element/Type Description
ManufacturingBill Contains a definition of a material in the manufacturing bill, including the
ManufacturingBillType quantity of the material needed, an identification of the material class or
definition, any manufacturing bill item assemblies, and the
corresponding bill of material ID.
A ManufacturingBill element may have a set of contained
ManufacturingBill elements to support hierarchical manufacturing bills.
ID

De scription

Mate rialClassID

Mate rialDefinitionID

Quantity

0..∞
ManufacturingBillType
Assem blyM anufacturingBill

0..∞

Assem blyType

Assem blyRelationship

BillOfMaterialID

Extended:ManufacturingBill

There is one ManufacturingBill element for each material in the BOM.

The ID is the local ID of the bill element. The BillOfMaterialID contains
the ID of the BOM item in the BillOfMaterials. There is one
BillOfMaterialID for each material in the manufacturing bill.
The BillOfMaterialID identifies each item in a bill of material list.

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Element/Type Description
MaterialSpecification Contains a definition of the material resources required for the product
MaterialSpecificationType segment. Includes the identification of the class or instance of the
resources, the quantity of the resource, the use (consumed, produced),
any specification assemblies, and the property specification if required
to identify the resource.
A ManufacturingSpecification element may have a set of contained
ManufacturingSpecification elements to support hierarchical
manufacturing bills.
MaterialClassID

MaterialDefinitionID

Description

0..∞

MaterialUse

Quantity

0..∞
MaterialSpecificationType
AssemblySpecification

0..∞

AssemblyType

AssemblyRelationship

MaterialSpecificationProperty

0..∞

Extended:MaterialSpecification

MaterialSpecificationProperty Contains a definition of a material property required for the product

MaterialSpecificationPropertyType segment, including the quantity of the resource, and a value used to
identify the subset of the class.
ID

Description

0..∞

Value
MaterialSpecificationPropertyTy...
0..∞

Quantity

0..∞

Extended:MaterialSpecificationPrope...

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Element/Type Description
PersonnelSpecification Contains a definition of the personnel resources required for the product
PersonnelSpecificationType segment. Includes the identification of the class or instance of the
resources, the quantity of the resource, and the property specification if
required to identify the resource.
PersonnelClassID

PersonID

Description

0..∞

PersonnelSpecificationType
Quantity

0..∞

PersonnelSpecificationProperty

0..∞

Extended:PersonnelSpecification

PersonnelSpecificationProperty Contains a definition of the personnel resources required for the product
PersonnelSpecificationPropertyType segment. Includes the identification of the class or instance of the
resources, the quantity of the resource, and the property specification if
required to identify the resource.
ID

Description

0..∞

Value
PersonnelSpecificationProperty...
0..∞

Quantity

0..∞

Extended:PersonnelSpecificationPro...

PhysicalAssetSpecification Contains a definition of the physical asset resources required for the
PhysicalAssetSpecificationType product segment. Includes the identification of the class or instance of
the resources, the quantity of the resource, and the property
specification if required to identify the resource.
PhysicalAssetClassID

PhysicalAssetID

Description

0..∞
PhysicalAssetSpecificationType
Quantity

0..∞

PhysicalAssetSpecificationPro...

0..∞

Extended:PhysicalAssetSpecification

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Element/Type Description
PhysicalAssetSpecificationProperty Contains a definition of the physical asset resources required for the
PhysicalAssetSpecificationPropertyType product segment. Includes the identification of the class or instance of
the resources, the quantity of the resource, and the property
specification if required to identify the resource.
ID

Description

0..∞

Value
PhysicalAssetSpecificationProp...
0..∞

Quantity

0..∞

Extended:PhysicalAssetSpecificatio...

ProductSegment Contains a definition of a product segment, including the quantity of

ProductSegmentType resources required for the segment (per unit of production), an
estimated duration of the segment, an identification of the corresponding
process segment, parameters associated with the segment, the
segment dependencies, and any encapsulated segments. May also
contain application specific elements.
ID

De scription

Duration

Proces sSegm entID

0..∞

Param eter

0..∞

Pe rsonnelSpecification

0..∞

ProductSegm entType Equipme ntSpecification

0..∞

PhysicalAssetSpecification

0..∞

MaterialSpecification

0..∞

Se gme ntDe pendency

0..∞

ProductSegment

0..∞

Extended:ProductSegment

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TRANSACTION ELEMENTS
The following elements are defined to support the ISA 95 Part 5 transactions, using the transaction data types defined in
the B2MML-Common.xsd schema.

Product Definition Information Elements Description

GetProductDefinitionInformation Get ProductDefinition definitions.
ShowProductDefinitionInformation Returned information from the GetProductDefinitionInformation
message.
ProcessProductDefinitionInformation Process ProductDefinition definitions.
AcknowledgeProductDefinitionInformation Returned status from the ProcessProductDefinitionInformation
message.
ChangeProductDefinitionInformation Change ProductDefinition definitions.
RespondProductDefinitionInformation Returned status from the ChangeProductDefinitionInformation
message.
CancelProductDefinitionInformation Cancel ProductDefinition definitions.
SyncProductDefinitionInformation Published ProductDefinition definitions.

Product Definition Elements Description

GetProductDefinition Get a ProductDefinition definition.
ShowProductDefinition Returned information from the GetProductDefinition message.
ProcessProductDefinition Process a ProductDefinition definition.
AcknowledgeProductDefinition Returned status from the ProcessProductDefinition message.
ChangeProductDefinition Change a ProductDefinition definition.
RespondProductDefinition Returned status from the ChangeProductDefinition message.
CancelProductDefinition Cancel a ProductDefinition definition.
SyncProductDefinition Published ProductDefinition definition.

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DIAGRAM CONVENTION
The schema diagrams using the following convention to illustrate the structure of the schema elements, the type of the
elements and attributes, and the rules for optional elements and repetition.

Name of an element or element type

Indicates fixed order of elements

Indicates elements

Indicates 1 instance only

Indicates 1 to many instances

Indicates 0 or 1 instance only

Indicates 0 to many instances

Indicates selection of alternatives

Indicates contained elements

Indicates no contained elements

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