CAD/CAPP Integration using Feature Ontology

Abstract

International audienceIn a collaborative computer-supported engineering environment, the interoperation of various applications will need a representation that goes beyond the current geometry-based representation, which is inadequate for capturing semantic information. The primary purpose of this study is to discuss a semantically based information exchange protocol that will facilitate seamless interoperability among current and next generation computer-aided design systems (CAD) and between CAD and other systems that use product data. An ontological approach is described to integrating computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided process planning (CAPP). Two commercial software applications are used to demonstrate the approach. This involves the development of a shared ontology and domain specific ontologies in the Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) language. Domain specific ontologies — which are feature-based — are developed after a detailed analysis of the CAD and the CAPP software. Mapping between the domain ontologies and the shared ontology is achieved by several mapping rules. The approach is validated by using a variety of parts

Ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management: state of the art literature review

“…It acts also as a basis for schema matching to support systems interoperability across multiple and heterogeneous systems Patil, Dutta, and Sriram (2005), Chang et al (2008), Terpenny (2009), Dartigues (2003), Dartigues et al (2007), Abdul-Ghafour (2009), Grosse, Milton-Benoit, and Wileden (2005), Panetto, Dassisti, and Tursi (2012), Chen, Chen, and Chu (2009), Lin and Harding (2007), Yoo and Kim (2002), Lee et al (2010), and Cho, Han, and Kim (2006) …”

“…In this approach, the authors aim to retrieve and save the complex relations, support the reasoning, integrate heterogeneous data resources and offer users more accurate, proper and comprehensive data. Dartigues (2003) and Dartigues et al (2007) propose an ontological approach to enable the exchange of features between CAD/CAPP application software using the knowledge interchange format. Similarly, but with a different approach, Abdul-Ghafour (2009) proposes an approach based on the implementation of mediated ontologies and the construction of a common design features ontology, used as an interlingua for the exchange of product data.…”

“…Ontology supports data integration through the application of Linked Data principles El Kadiri, Milicic, and Kiritsis (2013) Data/ information exchange Ontology encompasses the model and the data and thus can be seamlessly exchanged among different systems on a global basis based on standardised representation languages (OWL/RDF/ RDFS) Rico et al (2014), Dartigues (2003), Dartigues et al (2007), Abdul-Ghafour (2009), Lin and Harding (2007), and Yoo and Kim (2002) Information modelling Ontology enables information modelling of the product throughout its entire lifecycle and supports expressing a shared understanding of a domain as a common source of knowledge Barbau et al (2012), Vegetti, Henning, andLeone (2005), Giménez et al (2008), Panetto, Dassisti, andTursi (2012), Kiritsis (2011), Matsokis and Kiritsis (2010), Milicic et al (2012) and Perdikakis et al (2012) Knowledge engineering Ontology supports capturing, storing and retrieving knowledge taking advantages from reasoning mechanisms to infer hidden and tacit facts Sanya and Shehab (2014), Giménez et al (2008), Kiritsis (2011), Matsokis andKiritsis (2010), Lutzenberger, Klein, andThoben (2013), Panetto, Dassisti, and Tursi (2012), Chen, Chen, andChu (2009), Jiang, Peng, and, Lin and Harding (2007), Fortineau (2013), Milicic et al (2012aMilicic et al ( , 2013, and Grosse, Milton-Benoit, and Wileden (2005) International Journal of Production Research 7 models. This conversion results in semantic loss in information representation, which requires a preliminary knowledge of the conceptual model in order to operate on the database.…”

Integration of product models by ontology development

“…Dartigues et al, [8,9] elaborated the drawbacks of STEP for integrating features between two phases of product development: design and process planning, and thereby proposed an ontological approach using the language KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format).…”

The configuration of design and manufacture knowledge models from a heavyweight ontological foundation

“…For this particular reason, concepts from ISO 10303 AP224 have been exploited because of the slant onto wide-ranging feature definitions and also because features support the integration between design and manufacture (Abouel Nasr and Kamrani, 2006;Dartigues et al, 2007;Nassehi et al, 2007).…”