Ontology-based products information interoperability in networked manufacturing enterprises
Cost Effective Automation, Volume # 1 | Part# 1
Authors
A. Tursi; H. Panetto; G. Morel; M. Dassisti
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00015
Page Numbers:
85-93
Index Terms
enterprise integration and networking,interoperability,product data management,ontology
Abstract
Standardisation initiatives (ISO and IEC) try to answer the problem of managing heterogeneous information, scattered within organizations, by formalising the knowledge related to products technical data. While the product is the centred object from which, along its life cycle, all enterprise systems, either inside a single enterprise or between cooperating networked enterprises, have a specific view, we may consider it as active as far as it participates to the decisions making by providing knowledge about itself. This paper proposes a novel approach, postulating that the product, represented by its technical data, may be considered as interoperable per se with the many applications involved in manufacturing enterprises as far as it embeds knowledge about itself, as it stores all its technical data, provided that these are embedded on a common model. The matter of this approach is to formalise of all technical data and concepts contributing to the definition of a Product Ontology, embedded into the product itself and making it interoperable with applications, minimising loss of semantics.
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