Knowledge Sharing Between Design and Manufacture

Possibilities of using PSL ontology to represent non-linear process plans

“…In 2006 the ISO-I8629 standard was published and completed, depicting the identification, formal definition and semantic structure of the intrinsic concepts for the capture and exchange of information relative to discrete manufacturing [18], estabhshing an ontology for the domain and representation languages [19]. PSL is related to others standards, such as PIF (Process Interchange Format), a process ontology comparable to PSL [22] or STEP, covering the dynamic and organizational views of the process, and according to [23] has been used for many apphcations which differ from its original purpose, such as modeling and process planning, production planning and scheduling, modeling, simulation, project management, work flow automation and business process reengineering. PSL is related to others standards, such as PIF (Process Interchange Format), a process ontology comparable to PSL [22] or STEP, covering the dynamic and organizational views of the process, and according to [23] has been used for many apphcations which differ from its original purpose, such as modeling and process planning, production planning and scheduling, modeling, simulation, project management, work flow automation and business process reengineering.…”