Reference ontologies for interoperability across multiple assembly systems

Muhammad Imran

doi:10.1080/00207543.2015.1087654

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Reference ontologies for interoperability across multiple assembly systems

2015-09-28

Muhammad Imran *

R. I. M. Young

DOI：10.1080/00207543.2015.1087654

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The role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is crucial for future manufacturing organisations in order to support effective collaboration and information sharing. However, the contemporary ICT-based systems lack the required ability to adequately support interoperability across multiple domain systems. The capability of such ICT-based systems to interoperate is impeded by the semantic conflicts arising from loosely defined meanings and intents of the participating system concepts. The aim of this paper is to investigate the interoperability of assembly systems at multiple levels of concept specialisations using the concept of a formal reference ontology. Formal ontologies are providing a promising way to computationally capture the domain meanings which can subsequently provide a base to support interoperability across multiple systems and in our case multiple assembly systems. This paper takes the example of manufacturing bill of materials concept and three different domain-specific interpretations to explore and demonstrate the potential of formal reference ontologies to support interoperability.

Keywords:

Information and communication technologies (ICTs)

assembly systems

interoperability

formal ontologies

manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM)

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