The phrase "as a subprocess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to processes, workflows, or programming, where one process is a part of another.
Example: "The main application runs several tasks concurrently, with each task operating as a subprocess to improve efficiency."
Alternatives: "as a secondary process" or "as a component process".
Our model therefore includes a regulated decision-making process, called Checkpoint, which controls execution of one of the following options: (1) degrade (which includes decapping as a first subprocess), (2) store (sequestrate), and (3) unload (a condition for the P body-Ribosome Transport process, which releases mRNA back to the Ribosome).
So the designer must build in a subprocess to correct this possible error.
Processes may be large and cross-functional, such as order management, or relatively narrow, like order entry (which could be considered a process in itself or a subprocess of order management).
Transformation of visual mental images according cognitive theories is a subprocess of view imagery.
A subprocess may be delegated to a contractor, which receives information only about those parts of the overall process that are relevant for the contract.
The secondary reformer is a part of a subprocess in a higher scale unit of ammonia synthesis.
The present study, which focused only on idea generation, a subprocess of planning that proposes ideas for expression (Chenoweth & Hayes, 2003), identified several ways in which writers may produce information to be included in the essay content.
The class RNA-Seq gene expression profiling represents a subprocess of a RNA-Seq experiment.
For example, the norepinephrine is closely related with tumor and the norepinephrine metabolism which has been reported to highly associate with the initiation and progression of tumor is a subprocess of the tyrosine metabolism pathway [ 34, 36, 37].
