Definition
A FirstOrderCollection. Each instance of Product is a TemporalThing that is, or was at one time, offered for sale or performed as a commercial service, or was produced with the intent of being offered for sale. Positive examples of Product include:
- a barrel of crude oil being shipped to a customer;
- a completely assembled automobile in a factory;
- that same automobile sitting in a dealer's sales lot;
- that same automobile after it has been purchased and driven for ten years;
- a ripe tomato in the produce department of a grocery store;
- that same tomato later thrown away because it has become rotten before it could be sold;
- a professional masseuse or masseur giving a massage to a customer;
- a professional plumber installing a new sink for a customer.
Negative examples of Product include:
- some natural crude oil lying in the ground;
- an automobile prototype developed by a car company for testing purposes;
- a tomato grown in someone's backyard garden for personal use;
- a person giving a massage to his or her spouse, who has had a stressful day at work;
- a do-it-yourselfer installing a new sink in his or her house.
Some important specializations of Product are ProductForSale, PartiallyTangibleProduct, and ServiceProduct.
