Utilisation · The utilisation measure · Element
The definition of use
What counts as the asset being used.
The part
What it is
For equipment this is usually obvious; for licences, spaces and systems it is not, and the answer changes the number substantially.
The strict definition — meaningful activity within the period — is almost always the more useful one.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
Use definition
What counts, defined tightly enough that allocation is not mistaken for use.
Text shared type