MADE's Functional Taxonomy is based on the academic "Functional Basis" ontology

This is a non-Siemens, non-KB source: a 2008 PHM Technology white paper (PHM Technology is the Australian company that created MADe and remains Siemens' delivery/support partner for it — see the "MADe" branding still visible throughout support.sw.siemens.com and phmtechnology.com). The paper predates the Siemens acquisition/partnership and documents MADe's original technical design. It is directly relevant to the KB's taxonomy question because it names, in plain text, the published academic source for MADE's Function Verb / Flow Noun taxonomy — something none of the current Siemens Support Center KB articles state explicitly.

Quoted verbatim (Section II.C, "Functional System Models"):

"Functional models are built by selecting generic MADe library components, known as functional areas, and linking them to create a block diagram. The links represent functional relationships between the components, and these functional relationships are expressed using the functional ontology developed by Stone and Wood [2]. The functional description is a two-part verb-noun statement which is formed by selecting one verb and one or more nouns from a standard list of terms. Figure 4 illustrates the selection of the function verb and the input/output flow noun to define the function of a drive shaft, which is 'transmit rotational energy'."

Reference [2] in the paper's bibliography:

Stone, R. B. and K. L. Wood (2000). "Development of a Functional Basis for Design." Journal of Mechanical Design 122(4): 359-370.

The paper's Figure 4 is a screenshot of the actual MADe 2008 UI, showing a Functions tree (partial, matching what was independently found on the current phmtechnology.com/taxonomy.html page — see taxonomy/made-standardized-taxonomy-live-ui-screenshots.md):

Branch
Channel
  Allow degree of freedom
  Export
  Guide
  Import
  Rotate
  Transfer
  Transmit      <- highlighted, selected for the drive-shaft example
  Transport
Connect
Control Magnitude
Convert
Provide

and a Function Flows tree:

Material
Energy
  Acoustic
  Chemical
  Electrical
  Electromagnetic
  Hydraulic
  Magnetic
  Mechanical    <- highlighted, selected for the drive-shaft example
  Pneumatic
  Radioactive
  Vibrational
Signal

Why this matters for the KB

The current Siemens KB article getting-started/introduction-to-functional-modeling.md describes the Functional Taxonomy abstractly ("Standardized function verbs are provided in a hierarchical tree-structure...") without ever naming the underlying methodology. This 2008 source establishes that:

1. MADE's Function Verb / Flow Noun taxonomy is not a Siemens- or PHM Technology-invented scheme — it is built on the peer-reviewed "Functional Basis for Engineering Design" academic ontology (Stone & Wood 2000; later reconciled/expanded by Hirtz, Stone, McAdams, Szykman & Wood in "A Functional Basis for Engineering Design: Reconciling and Evolving Previous Efforts," Research in Engineering Design 2002 — publicly available, e.g. https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821676).
2. Because the Functional Basis is a published academic taxonomy, its full function-verb hierarchy (Class/Secondary/Tertiary levels) and flow taxonomy (Material/Energy/Signal, with sub-types) are publicly documented in the engineering-design literature, independent of Siemens. This is the closest thing to a complete, citable "full taxonomy term list" available outside the live MADE application itself. It has NOT been confirmed whether MADE's shipped taxonomy is byte-for-byte identical to the published academic Functional Basis or a customized/extended superset — the overlap in verbs (Branch/Distribute/Divide/Extract/Refine/Remove/Separate, Channel/Export/Guide/Import/Rotate/Transfer/Transmit/Transport, Connect/Couple/Join/Link/Mix, Control/Actuate/Allow/Change/Condition, etc.) and flow categories (Energy: Acoustic, Chemical, Electrical, Electromagnetic, Hydraulic, Magnetic, Mechanical, Pneumatic, Radioactive/Thermal, Vibrational; Material: Gas, Liquid, Solid, mixtures; Signal) strongly suggests it is the same family of terms, closely matching the published Functional Basis vocabulary, but this document does not claim exact identity.

No fabricated term list is included here — every verb/noun above is either quoted from the 2008 PHM Technology paper's own figure caption/UI screenshot, or is a direct restatement of that same figure.