My favorite to explain "Create Material" is the "yoghurt" example:
Suppose you are a yoghurt producer and you describe the make of a strawberry yoghurt (with real(!) strawberries) on a high level. There are certainly more ingredients in reality, but for the little example its enough to think of the yoghurt as being made of
- milk
- sugar
- strawberries
So your yoghurt is the "material" to create. The "Create Material" function of your yoghurt is described as
- you have a "continuous" quantity of milk (e.g. 150 ml)
- you have a "continuous" quantity of sugar (e.g. 50 g)
- you have a discrete number of strawberries, say 3 pieces
If you purchase all the components, you have "Provide" functions for the ingredients. And you will also have a set of transformation functions to make the yoghurt out of it - in my example one transformation.
This could be illustrated in V6 as follows:
