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Business Applications
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The Business Side of Objects: Breaking the Barrier between Users and I.T.
Organizational objects
In addition to the physical network, tools, and Iandbase items, the organizational objects are critical to the
information system flow for dealing with creation and maintenance of the network. These include:
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Jobs, work orders, & customer orders - Objects which organize and provide identity for tracking to the
other objects. A work order includes a purpose, such as upgrade capacity, for a specific area and is
referencedby everyfeatureplaced,removed,or modifiedto accomplishthis task as well as any government
required permits or land lease or purchase needed for the equipment.
- Work Package (WP) - Contains work prints which provide the locations for modifications and the details of
the workto be performedas well as the Bill of Materials(BOM)of itemsneededto performthejob and
possibly the economic or other justification for the work to be performed.
- Trouble Reports (TR) - Reference items of plant, typically a customer premise device, at which signal is
weak, noisy, or missing. From this initial definition, the problem is tracked to a device or point along a
conductor where a fault occurs. Due to planned redundancy, a separate route (or strand or pair) may be used
to provide an immediate solution. However, the TR, with the detail problem description may become an
AM/FM object associated with the device or conduct or until it is repaired or replaced.
Thereare, of course,many other "non-geographic" systems that relate to the AMIFMsystem.Theseinclude customer systems that track usage and billing, assignment systems that relate phone numbers and services to specific
devices and frequencies, operations systems that provide real - times witching and monitoring, and inventory
reporting and payroll systems.
Relationships between the features
Particularrelationshipsthat are of interest in anAM/FMmodel include:
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Connects to - Relates devices to devices or conductors, attachments to structures, and conductors to other
conductors or devices. This relationship may be considered the same in either direction, i.e., if a connects to
b, then b connects to a. It should be noted that a graphical intersection does not imply connects to. If cable
‘a’ crosses conductor ‘Iiwithout some splice or device to create a physical connection, then ‘a’ does not
connect to ‘b’.
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Feeds - Provides signal to, has a corollary in the relation is fed by. Additional information is needed to
know if ‘a’ feeds ‘b’,whether ‘b’ also feeds ‘a’. In otherwords this relation may be uni- or hi-directional.
(This relation is typically not graphically depicted, because it occurs within the internal definition of the
deviceport or conductorstrand ratherthan at the housingor sheath level.) A special instanceof "feeds" may
be referredto as "serve(s)," as in the case of "which terminal serves this "customer" or "whattransmitters"
servethis area".
- Houses or contains: (maybe referredto as supportsor encloses)- Relatesstructuresto conductorsor
devices. A pole tends to supportvarious devicesand conductors,to providea locationfor the item in the
samemannerin whicha manholeor pedestalenclosesthe conductoror device. For example,pole ‘a’
containssplitter‘p’andtap ‘q’,duct ‘r’innerduct‘b’containsconductors‘c’and ‘d’
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