Information Integration for Concurrent Engineering (IICE) IDEF3 Process Description Capture Method Report

Abstract

This document provides a method overview, practice and use description, and language reference for the IDEF3 Process Description Capture Method. The name IDEF originates from the Air Force program for Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) from which the first ICAM Definition, or IDEF, methods emerged. It was in recognition of this foundational work, and in support of an overall strategy to provide a family of mutually-supportive methods for enterprise integration, that continued development of IDEF technology was undertaken. More recently, with their expanded focus and widespread use as part of Concurrent Engineering, Total Quality Management (TQM) , and business re-engineering initiatives, the IDEF acronym has been re-cast as the name referring to an integrated family of Integration Definition methods. IDEF3 was designed as a complementary addition to the IDEF family of methods serving the role of a knowledge acquisition and requirements definition tool that structures the user's understanding of how a given process, event, or system works around process flow and object state transition descriptions. A special-purpose graphical language accompanying the IDEF3 method serves to highlight temporal precedence and causality relationships relative to the process or event being described.

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