OPCAT Version 3.0 Getting Started Guide June 2007 Table of Contents 1. Intrudction to the Guide... Brief Formal Introduction to OPM..... Starting to Model with OPCAT................................... 3.1 Install OPCAT......... 3.2 Open a new system.… 555 3.3 The System Diagram (SD)...................... 3.4 Defining the system main function.... 6 3.5 Defining and linking the system's main objects................... 3.6 Quick Summary................................ 4. The OPM symbols.............................. 16 3.7 Entities.......................... 16 3.8 Structural Links.… 17 3.9 Procedural Links... 18 3.10 Using structural relations......... 20 Zooming into the main process .................. 25 Basic Conditional Flow........... 3 1 Consistency.… 5 Marking Initial States....................... 38 In-zooming into the next level ............ 10. Summary.… 40OPCAT Version 3.0 Getting Started Guide June 2007 Table of Contents 1. Intrudction to the Guide.................................................................................................. 2 2. Brief Formal Introduction to OPM ..................................................................................... 2 3. Starting to Model with OPCAT ...................................................................................... 5 3.1 Install OPCAT............................................................................................................. 5 3.2 Open a new system .................................................................................................... 5 3.3 The System Diagram (SD)........................................................................................... 6 3.4 Defining the system main function................................................................................ 6 3.5 Defining and linking the system's main objects .............................................................. 9 3.6 Quick Summary ....................................................................................................... 15 4. The OPM symbols ..................................................................................................... 16 3.7 Entities ................................................................................................................... 16 3.8 Structural Links........................................................................................................ 17 3.9 Procedural Links....................................................................................................... 18 3.10 Using structural relations........................................................................................... 20 5. Zooming into the main process .................................................................................. 25 6. Basic Conditional Flow............................................................................................... 33 7. Consistency ............................................................................................................. 35 8. Marking Initial States................................................................................................ 38 9. In-zooming into the next level ................................................................................... 39 10. Summary ................................................................................................................ 40