Extended Formal Process Description

VDI 3682 defines a system's actions in processing products, energy, or information. The extension includes detailed requirement models for nodes like product, energy, and information, with annotations for each process step's preliminary stages and outcomes. An online editor in AutomationML format interacts with Git and third-party tools through the AIToC marketplace. Essential notifications of technical database changes support engineers.

The concept reuses the concept of AutomationML to provide specialized libraries and allows the exchange with third party engineering tools. The editor for the Exended Formal Process Description is a web-based tool. It can be used as installation on side or completely as remote service, provided by a service provides.

Integration into the engineering tool chain is based on file exchange or the use of distributed revision control systems.

Process planning engineers of manufacturing or process automation.

The software is available on request as an executable binary file for testing purposes. Support is offered for commercial use.