controls

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

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

Type: Object Property

SubProperty Of: modulates

Range: bfo:process

Definition

relation between a process profile and a process that holds when the process profile modulates the process and concretizes one or more action specifications as part of a planned process

Explanatory Notes

The controls relation specializes modulates for planned control. The relation applies to the process profile that carries the control-relevant behavior, rather than to the entire planned process, because the broader planned process may include other state changes such as logging, calculation, operator review, or alarm handling. The relation does not imply successful control. It only indicates that the specified process profile causally influences the target process.

Examples

• jacket-temperature profile controls a reactor heating process, valve-position profile controls a tank filling process, pump-speed profile controls a liquid transfer process, conveyor-speed profile controls a packaging process, robot-arm-position profile controls a part placement process

Description Logic

constr:controls ⊑ constr:modulates

domain: bfo:process_profile ⊓ ∃ constr:processProfileOf .constr:PlannedProcess

range: bfo:process

SubPropertyOf: constr:modulates

domain: bfo:process_profile and constr:processProfileOf some constr:PlannedProcess

range: bfo:process