Using SADT Blocks to Represent a Process
If you are an engineering student, you may be asked to represent the technology/solution with a process and/or a function model using SADT blocks. If you are familiar with SADT blocks, you definitely know what to do. However, if this is the first time you are hearing about SADT blocks, then here is a quick introduction to this versatile methodology.
What are SADT blocks?
Structured analysis and design technique (or simply SADT) is software and systems engineering methodology that’s often used to describe a hierarchy of functions. Developed by Douglas Ross in 1960s, the structured analysis modeling language uses two types of diagrams: activity and data models.
The basic elements of SADT are represented in the diagram below:
For more information on what Input, Output, control, Mechanism, and Function represent, check this link
Here are some resources about SADT that can help you write about SADT-related topics:
https://informs-sim.org/wsc14papers/includes/files/093.pdf
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-idef0-diagrams-ea7a9289-96e0-4df8-bb26-a62ea86417fc
If you don’t know how to draw SADT blocks or if you have an essay or presentation that’s to related SADT and you can’t figure out how to go about it, contact me so that I can show you what to do or where to find more resources
