Providing function

Providing function is a useful function that is necessary for the performance of another useful function.

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The providing function is one of the three types of functions (alongside productive and corrective) that can be performed within operations (components) of an engineeiring system that is a process.

There are 3 types of providing functions:

supporting function,
transport function, and
measurement function.

In the function ranking, providing functions are valued lower than productive functions but higher than the corrective ones. In the most commonly used scoring system, they receive 2 points.

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Supporting function
Transport function
Measurement function

Providing function

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