Taxonomy / Underlying Model (not part of the Siemens Support Center Knowledge Base tab)
MADE Standardized Taxonomy — live UI tree screenshots
This is not a Siemens Support Center Knowledge Base article. It is the public marketing/product
page for MADE's "Standardized Taxonomy" feature, hosted by PHM Technology (the Australian company
that originated MADe and is Siemens' delivery partner for it; see
taxonomy/functional-basis-academic-origin.md for the corporate history). The page is publicly
accessible with no login and contains four embedded screenshots of the actual MADE application UI,
showing live, expandable taxonomy trees. The screenshots are static images (not rendered DOM text),
so the enumerations below were read directly off the rendered screenshots via visual inspection
(zoomed captures), not scraped as text. Nodes below the visible fold of each tree were not captured
(the images are not independently scrollable).
Page framing text (verbatim):
"MADE's model-based taxonomy framework spans four domains; Failure Concepts, Environmental Factors, Functional Behavior, and Maintenance Actions. It standardizes engineering data, enabling consistent analysis, faster collaboration, and fewer cross-discipline errors."
Key Features section lists: Failure Concepts Taxonomy, Functional Taxonomy, Environmental Factors Taxonomy, Maintenance Actions Taxonomy.
1. Failure Concepts taxonomy (tree screenshot)
Top-level branches visible: Assembly and reassembly, Design, Maintenance, (partially visible further down, not fully captured: Manufacturing, Operation, Transportation — these four appear as top-level siblings in the "Failure Injection" article's own Failure Concepts panel, see cross-reference below).
Expanded under Assembly and reassembly → Contamination:
- Biological contaminant
- Chemically reactive contaminant
- Corrosive contaminant
- Exposure to acid
- Gaseous contaminant
- Ionic contaminant
- Liquid contaminant
- Saline contaminant
- Solid particle contaminants
Sibling (collapsed) categories under Assembly and reassembly: Electrical property, Environmental protection, Geometry, Humidity, Material quality, Mechanical loading, Mechanical property.
Expanded under Design → Electrical property:
- Capacitance high
- Capacitance low
- Dielectric strength high
- Dielectric strength low
- Electrical potential high
- Electrical potential low
- Electrical resistance high
- Electrical resistance low
- Impedance mismatch
- Junction defects
- Line defects
- Open circuit
- Parasitic capacitance
- Short circuit
Sibling (collapsed) categories under Design: Chemical property, Environmental protection, Geometry, Material quality, Mechanical loading, Mechanical property, Operational capacity, Software property, Software resource, Software security.
Under Maintenance (cut off, repeats a Contamination sub-list beginning with Biological contaminant, Chemically reactive contaminant, Corrosive contaminant...).
2. Environmental Factors taxonomy (tree screenshot, "Environmental Characteristics" panel)
Top-level categories, each with sub-items (checkbox tree, "Characteristics / Features / Environment" tabs):
- Acceleration: Exposure to High Accelerations, Exposure to zero Gravity
- Electromagnetic Radiation: Exposure to Solar Radiation
- Gaseous Contamination: Corrosive Environment, Exposure to Ozone
- Humidity: High Humidity, Humidity Differential, Low Humidity
- Liquid Contamination: Corrosive Environment, Exposure to Rain
- Nuclear Radiation: Exposure to Nuclear Radiation
- Pressure: Atmospheric Pressure, Atmospheric Pressure Differential, Atmospheric Pressure Fluctuations/Cycle, High Air Pressure, High Atmospheric Pressure, Low Atmospheric Pressure
- Shock: Shock
- Solid Contamination: Corrosive Environment, Exposure to Salt and Dust
- Temperature: Exposure to Thermal Shocks, High Temperature, Low Temperature, Temperature Change
A settable "Operating Temperature" field below the tree offered a dropdown including at least "Medium" as a value (other options not visible).
3. Functional taxonomy — Functions tree (tree screenshot, "Functions/Flows" tabbed panel)
- Branch
- Distribute
- Divide
- Extract
- Refine
- Remove
- Separate
- Channel
- Export
- Guide
- Import
- Rotate
- Translate
- Transmit
- Transport
- Connect
- Couple
- Join
- Link
- Mix
- Control
- Actuate
- Allow
- Change
- Condition
- (further siblings/children exist below the visible fold — not captured)
This directly matches the terminology used in getting-started/introduction-to-functional-modeling.md
("Refine", "Transmit" are cited there as function-verb examples) and in the academic Functional Basis
literature (see taxonomy/functional-basis-academic-origin.md).
4. Functional taxonomy — Flows tree (tree screenshot, "Functions/Flows" tabbed panel)
- Energy
- Acoustic
- Chemical
- Electrical
- Electromagnetic
- Generic
- Hydraulic
- Magnetic
- Mechanical - linear
- Mechanical - rotational
- Pneumatic (Gas)
- Thermal
- Material
- Gas
- Generic
- Liquid
- Mixture Gas-Gas
- Mixture Gas-Liquid
- Mixture Gas-Solid
- Mixture Liquid-Liquid
- Mixture Liquid-Solid
- Mixture Solid
- Solid
- Solid-Solid
- Signal
- Continuous
- (further siblings/children exist below the visible fold — not captured)
5. Maintenance Actions taxonomy (four small screenshot tables)
Category list (appears identical across all four screenshots, just re-sorted/highlighted differently to illustrate each category): Breakdown, Condition-based, Failure Finding, Scheduled.
Action list shown per category: Repair, Replace, Service, Lubrication.
(The four screenshots are titled "Maintenance Taxonomy Condition-based," "...Breakdown," "...Scheduled," and "...Failure Finding" — each appears to be the same two small tables with a different row highlighted, illustrating how a maintenance action maps to a maintenance category rather than enumerating category-specific action lists. No additional maintenance-action terms were visible.)
Assessment
This page is the closest thing found to a public, visual enumeration of MADE's actual taxonomy
trees. It is not an exhaustive list — every tree is cut off at the visible fold of a marketing
screenshot, and deeper/sibling nodes (e.g., under Control, Signal, Manufacturing, Operation,
Transportation) are known to exist but were not visible. Treat this as a representative sample of
real taxonomy content, not the complete taxonomy. No downloadable PDF/spreadsheet of the full
taxonomy was found anywhere in this search (see taxonomy/search-summary-and-gaps.md).
Source: https://www.phmtechnology.com/taxonomy.html · retrieved 2026-07-08