Re: Defination of a system

[Myron Tribus <mtribus@earthlink.net>]

I like John Carrow's discussion of management processes.  I suppose 
that I like it because he begins by discussing chemical engineering 
process design and equipment design.   Since I spent some time doing 
the same things (in one of my prior incarnations) I easily identified 
with his descriptions.

I would only add one idea to his presentation.   If instead of 
drawing the chemical engineer's flow diagram for a process,  we use a 
"Deployment Flow Chart", then BOTH the system and the process appear 
on one sheet of paper.   Across the top of the page, the components 
of the system appear, and provide a coordinate system for process 
elements.  These components are described by nouns.  The process 
elements appear as 'verb-like' elements in the diagram, linked to the 
components of the system by where they appear in the diagram.

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