manufacturing process that leads to the production of finite quantities of material by subjecting quantities of input materials to an ordered set of processing activities over a finite period of time using one or more pieces of equipment
recipe that prescribes some equipment families, types, or sets of alternative pieces of equipment or process cell information that specifies the composition of equipment families, types, or sets of alternative piece of equipment and types of materials or cataloged items
recipe element creation process in which either a new recipe procedural element is created based on one or more existing recipe procedural elements or recipe process elements, or in which a new recipe process element is created based on one or more recipe process elements
recipe procedural element that has a partially ordered set of recipe phases as its part and that prescribes one or more alternative physical units with compatible capabilities
recipe procedural element that has no other recipe procedural element as its proper part and that prescribes one or more alternative physical units or equipment modules with compatible capabilities
recipe procedural element that has a partially ordered set of recipe unit procedures as its part and that prescribes one or more alternative process cells with compatible capabilities
recipe procedural element that has a partially ordered set of recipe operations as its part and that prescribes one or more alternative physical units with compatible capabilities
relation between two plan specifications indicating that the planned process prescribed by the first must precede the planned process prescribed by the second in order to conform to the ordering constraints of the plan specification
relation between a plan specification and a site or material entity indicating that a planned process prescribed by the plan specification should occur at that particular site or in the material entity