PDM-UG: Work Order and Work Definition

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Requests for work are typically followed by a definition of the engineering activities required to address the issues raised by the work requests. The engineering activity that defines a work order is formally directed in response to a work request.

Every work order consists of a work directive (in response to a work request) and a directed activity that defines the work to be done. This work definition represents the main activity that is directed by, and has to be carried out as part of, a work order.

The main activity describing the work definition related to a work order may be further refined by decomposition into sub-activities. This is described in the section on activity decomposition (see Activity decomposition).