In this way the system maatrix is an organization tool, converting unstructured verbal information into well organized and checkable structures in a holistic knowledge base. A physical system, e.g. a machine, is a set of objects and relations between these. There is also a system of process objects where the definitions normally is an imaginary system. This is the system definition that we work with in holostic methodology. A system is knowledge.
System development is knowledge development.
The concrete physical system bears the abstract, functional system. They are two different systems interacting. The conceptual, functional systems will be defined by Systematik, the concrete system or any physical aggregate within it will be defined by design and construction or education. In holistic development a user of a system is considered part of that system and is described as such. People and machines are system components, people are also system participants.