Structural – functional model of maintenance and repair of the traction substations equipment

To solve the problem of improving the quality control of substation equipment maintenance and repair process the structural and functional analysis for the distances of power supply has been performed. As a linguistic support for this task the International Standards Package Modeling IDEF (Icam Definition) has been used. It allows to analyze the process from three key perspectives at the same time – IDEFO (Integrated Definition for Function Modeling), IDEF3 and DFD (Data Flow Diagram). IDEF modeling is a way to reduce the amount of costly errors by structuring the process in the early stages of creating intelligent systems. It improves the communication between users and developers and smooth the transition from analysis to design. A complex task of equipment maintenance and repair process has been divided into a series of simple tasks on the basis of IDEF modeling. Structural - functional modeling with the selection of events has been done according to the IDEF0 methodology. Description of processes has been done according to the methodology IDEFЗ. DFD method has been used for building the data flow diagrams. Conducted structural-functional analysis has been shown that at some stages this process often requires the operational definition of different types of resources needed to perform repair work.