| Patrick Williams | 6212ea6 | 2020-07-07 16:34:00 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | description: > |
| 2 | Implement to define extended manufacturing data for inventory items. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | properties: |
| 5 | - name: ExtendedMFGData |
| 6 | type: dict[string, string] |
| 7 | description: > |
| 8 | A dictionary of manufacturer-specific extended data fields, which |
| 9 | may contain fields such as manufacturing plant, lot number, etc. |
| 10 | |
| Patrick Williams | ebcb17e | 2021-10-01 06:45:37 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | These fields must not be used for programmatic interrogation of |
| Patrick Williams | 6212ea6 | 2020-07-07 16:34:00 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | an inventory object but may be useful for various human-oriented |
| 13 | tasks, such as part failure analysis. Any field needed for |
| 14 | programmatic interrogation should be promoted to a first-class |
| 15 | property in another Item or Decorator interface. |