Flow-based claim

Flow-based claim extends the utility claim and enabling-resource claim. You can claim utilities and enabling resources on batch segments, if an actual product flow exists. This diagram explains this difference:

The Pipe in the diagram is an enabling resource.

The solver and the import and export functions support the flow-based claim

Flow-based claim is a claim that is defined on flow-in and flow-out segments. To import and export the claim for these segments, you can use the claim interfaces.

Flow-based claim requires the same enabling resource or utility for all the flows that are connected to the single-batch segment. In the above diagram, if a Pipe 2 enabling resource is added, you cannot define the first flow on Pipe and the second flow on Pipe 2.