Patent ID: 7555355

Claim:
A manufacturing production and process electronic data model tangibly embodied in a machine-readable storage device, the electronic data model defining a manufacture of a defined end output product, comprising: a top-level database object that identifies and provides an overall manufacturing control for a production process for the defined end output product; and multiple defined production segment database objects that are each identified by the top-level database object, each represent a portion of the production process, and are linked in a sequence that represents the production process, each linked production segment database object (1) identifying a defined segment output product, (2) including a defined bill of material needed as inputs to produce the defined segment output product, and (3) including a defined routing that describes a sequence of production operations for the defined segment output product, wherein the defined segment output product of a final segment database object in the sequence is the defined end output product and each remaining defined segment output product in the sequence is included in a defined bill of material of a later production segment database object in the sequence.