An Analysis Pattern for Equipment Management

In this paper, we account for this subject: how to de sign a pattern, it can track the state of the equipment of some organizations su ch as enterprise, organ, laboratory, school etc. We present an analysis pattern, which describes the whole procedure of managing the equipment and record the us ing of the equipment. It not only can track the quantity and location of the equ ipment of the whole organization, the more important is it can update the state of the equipment at real-time automatically. First,we design the static diagram(i.e. using UML class diagram to describe the basic state of the equipment). Then we consider its dynamic aspect, i.e., how th e state of the equipment to get changed according to the time. We use UML sequen ce diagram and state diagram to respectively describe the procedure of after pur chasing, transferring and discarding as useless of the equipment. Obviously, the manager can update the quantity and location of the equipment automatic ally. We character this pattern from the following five aspects: Problem: How the enterprise, organ, laboratory and school to track the quantity and location of the equipment. Circumstance: In some organizations, especially, in the manufactory or laborator y, when the number of the quantity and type is large or the distribution of the equipment is dispersed, they want to be able to track the quantity and location of the equipment. Forces: First, it is possible to the equipment be transferred or be discarded, n o matter when and where, the organization must be able to track the factual quan tity and location.Second, the solution must describe a basic semantic unit, that is, the solution must simple enough to apply it to various of circumstance, whi ch is the base of reusing. Third, the solution must include the interpret of the factual document. Solution: This part, we start with the basic demands, first using UML class diag ram to describe the basic pattern, which is an atomic pattern. Then using UML se quence diagram and state diagram to respectively describe the procedure of after purchasing, transferring and discarding as useless of the equipment and the rel evant change of the equipment in quantity and location. Consequence: Describing the effect of the pattern and how it supports the object . The pattern falls in the class which we call it semantic analysis patterns (SA P), it is a general model, which is abstract from the practical application. The case in fact is the minimum application which we can apply it to a certain fiel d, furthermore, we can implement the more particular demands or the similar appl ication by extending.