Automated process flow in product development

摘要

The invention relates to a computer-implemented method, computer program, computer program product, data structure, and computer for providing automated process flow in product development. A structured data object may be defined comprising at least one recipe and at least one defined formula. Trial stages within said product development are also defined as are object types within said data object referring to said trial stages. An instance of said data object is instantiated from said data object definition. A type of said instance is specified from one of said object types. A user may then be provided said recipe and/or said formula according to the specified type.