1- Please draw an IDEF0 diagram based on the following description of an order

process system:

A customer will submit his purchase order to ABC firm, the order entry unit will
enter the PO into its OPS system to log the purchase order and a customer order
will be generated for the credit department to review its credit worth based in the
credit decision guideline. If the credit is good, an approved customer order will
be sent to the shipping department to prepare for the shipment of the order. If the
credit of the customer is unacceptable, the order cancellation notice will be
generated and sent to the customer directly. A shipping slip and an invoice will
be shipped along with the goods ordered to the customer via UPS. The shipping
department personnel use a shipping scheduling guideline/policy to determine the
shipping scheduling based on the ordering information and inventory status of its
products.

In IDEF0, the A-0 diagram shows the context of the model which contains only
one box, the A0 diagram is the first-level decomposition of the IDEF0 model
showing the structure of the system being modeled and clearly defines what was
stated in the A-0 diagram. Please draw only the A0 diagram which may contain
3-6 boxes. Label all your flows. It is recommended that you use Design/IDEF,
Visio, or some other drawing tool to create this diagram and then cut-and-paste it
to your final document.

2- This example is about semiconductor fabrication process and analyzes

processes with six work areas CLEAN, STRIP, IMPLANT, DEPOSIT, LITHO
and ETCH. These areas perform wafer cleaning, stripping, ion implantation,
deposition, lithography and etch operation, respectively. Each work-area consists
of machines and operators. An operator is required for wafer-loading and
unloading operations at each machine. In addition, when different wafer-lots are
loaded, the set up is required. The different operations may have different
processing times even though they are performed in the same machine. Each
product type can have its own routing as in a general job shop. However, most
operation sequences are similar across product types in the wafer fabrication
process. For example, all wafers start their operations from CLEAN area and
finish at DEPOSIT area after several intermediate operations. One of the typical
operation sequences is cleaning, litho, implantation, striping, deposition, etching,
striping and deposition again. The important shop information such as the number
of machines and operators, MTBF (mean time between failure), and MTTR
(mean time to repair) is summarized in Table 4. Note that both MTBF and MTTR
are exponentially distributed, denoted by expo(). Two virtual areas were added to
indicate the starting (START) and ending (END) of the process. Note that the
second column consists of 8-tuples and each of which denotes the number of
visits to each work-area. This 8-tuples are arranged in the orders of START,
CLEAN, STRIP, IMPLANT, DEPOSIT, LITHO, ETCH and END. It is assumed
that this shop is operating for 24 hours with 3 eight-hour shifts due to high capital
equipment. The main performance measure for this shop is the system cycle time.

Table 4. “Facility data by work-area”.

Based on the description above, you are asked build an IDEF0 model according to
the first guideline in the previous section. Each area could be modeled as an
activity in IDEF0, and these activities are connected with each other through
wafers. For any machine, when a batch of wafers (job) arrives, the operators are
responsible for selecting the proper job according to the pre-determined
dispatching rule that decides the job processing sequence at the machine. Once a
job is selected, it is loaded onto a machine, and the set up occurs if the job’s lot
number is different from that of the previous job. Once it finishes its operation,
the wafers are unloaded and are ready to move to the next destination. The wafer
changes its status over time as seen in the figure. For each area, these wafer
processes are repeated.
3.- Below are tables that you will use to answer the questions. Study them
carefully before answering the questions. It is a database used by the shipping
department of a food manufacturing company to ship material lots against
customer orders.

Customers place customer orders (C_ORDER) that have order details. The
shipping department fills those orders by transferring material lots (TRANSFER)
from the warehouse to shipping vehicles for shipment (SHIPMENT), recording
the customer order and line item for which the transfer is being made, along with
the lot number and quantity that is transferred. Some data types for certain
attributes are shown after the tables.
Attribute_Name Description Data Type
S_TRANSACTION_NO Unique ID for movement of a material Num(integer)
lot out of the warehouse for shipment
LOT_NUMBER Unique identifier of a material lot Num(integer)
ORDER_NO Identifier of the order for which the Num(integer)
transfer is being made
ORDER_LINE_ITEM Identifier of the line item the transfer is Num(integer)
intended to satisfy in whole or in part
TRANSFER_QTY The number of units transferred Num(decimal)
TRANSFER_DATE Date on which the transfer is made Date/Time
SHIPPING_NO Unique identifier of a shipment to a Num(integer)
customer

Draw an IDEF1X model from the tables shown above. Using the data as shown above to
guide you, follow the syntax of the IDEF1X methodology closely, indicating primary and
foreign keys, cardinalities, mandatory and optional relationships, etc., etc.