Description
Resource objects represent the quantifiable attributes used to perform tasks or achieve system objectives. These can include financial Resources, materials, equipment, personnel (headcount), or energy. In systems engineering, managing resources is critical to ensure that the system can be developed and operated within constraints. Resources work like Attributes but have a unique property that they automatically roll up values of owned children resources. This means that a tree of resources will sum up each other without requiring equations allowing for quick modeling of simple roll up values and easy categorization. They also provide automatic projection of values across time periods if the equation of the resource uses a Task, where the task defines the duration and start / end dates.If viewing a Resource that has children resource, the value display will only show the rolled up result and will not have any editing ability
isConsumable - indicates that this resource is “consumed” meaning that its value is rolled up as a sum. Non consumable means it is rolled up as a max value. Non consumable would be for things “reused”, where the parent value would be total number of unique elements required.
Effective Labor Hours - For values that involve a Task as an element of its equation, the task’s total duration is used. If Effective Labor Hours is true, then it will not consider weekends in the duration computed and assume a standard 40 hour work week.
View Types
| View | Description |
|---|---|
| Properties | Edit the object’s properties, attributes, and metadata. |
| Table | Display the object and its children in a tabular format. |
| Pie Chart | Visualize resource distribution. |
| Plot | Analyze resource trends and usage. |
| Relationships | Explore the network of connections to other objects. |
Properties Fields
Name of the object.
Short name of the object.
Description of the object.
The value of the attribute which as the form of:
Equation or value [unit] (isConsumable)(Use Effective Labor Hours)See the allowed mathmatical operations/syntax and base units for details on what is allowed.
A list of all Relationships this object has with other model objects.Read more about Relationships