Processes

Process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties/attributes of a system/object. More precisely, and from the most general systemic perspective, every process is representable as a particular trajectory (or part thereof) in a system's phase space.

Every measurement is a process. The process of measurement is the fundamental concept in scienceand.

Identification of a process is also a subjective task, because the whole universe demonstrates one continuous universal "process", and every arbitrarily selected human behaviour can be conceptualized as a process. This aspect of the process recognition is closely dependent on human cognitive factors. According to the observations included in the systemic TOGA meta-theory, the concepts: system, process, function and goal are closely and formally connected, and, in parallel, every process has the system property, i.e. can be seen as an abstract dynamic system/object, and arbitrarily divided on network of processes. This division depends of the character of the changes, and on socio-cognitive factors, such as: their perception tools and goal of the observer.

For the above goal-oriented reason, from the industrial managerial point of view, the following inputs can be initially applied in an engineering process specification: people, machines and tools, materials, energy, information, professional knowledge, capital, time and space.



Examples
A singular process would be one which has a singular property or occurs rarely.
 * In mathematical and physical perspectives, processes  are categorized, for example, as: continuous, discrete, convergent, asymptotic, incremental, singular, recurrent and periodic.

Few processes in nature can be considered singular. Most processes found in nature are recurrent, or repeat more than once. Recurring processes which repeat at a constant rate are considered periodic. The more periodic a process is the more useful it is as the basis of a clock.

Various specific processes:


 * Evolution is a natural process which explains the adaptation of species over long periods of time. (generally assumed to be an example of a recurrent process)
 * The creation of the universe by God would be an example of a divine process. (generally assumed to be a singular process)
 * Learning is a process, as are teaching and training
 * Process music
 * Civic governance and conflict resolution
 * Protein biosynthesis