Manufacturing system engineering ontology for semantic interoperability across extended project teams

Abstract

Abstract:Communication, knowledge sharing and awareness of available expertise are complex issues for any multi-discipline team. Complexity increases substantially in extended enterprise environments. The concepts of an MSE moderator have previously been considered in environments with shared information models and vocabularies. These concepts are now translated to the realm of extended enterprises where inevitably individual partners will have their own terminology and information sources. An MSE ontology is proposed to enable the operation of an extended enterprise MSE Moderator, to provide common understanding of manufacturingrelated terms, and therefore to enhance the semantic interoperability and reuse of knowledge resources within globally extended manufacturing teams.

Ontology Development and Agent Communication in Agent-Based Simulation of AGVS

“…They concluded that more attention should be paid to the problem of semantic interoperability even in a domain such as manufacturing environment where standardized solutions are usually anticipated. A manufacturing system engineering (MSE) ontology for semantic interoperability across extended project teams was reported in [19]. The MSE ontology enables the operation of an extended enterprise MSE Moderator to provide common understanding of manufacturing-related terms and therefore to enhance the semantic interoperability and reuse of knowledge resources within globally extended manufacturing teams.…”

Knowledge Exploitation via Ontology Development in e-Government Project Management

“…Communication and knowledge exchange between project teams comprising members from within information systems vendors, external consultants and different public organizations is often hampered by, among other things, confusion in terms and vocabulary [2]. Extended collaboration, such as joint private and public sector ventures, will raise the difficulty and complexity of communication between the cooperating stakeholders.…”

A manufacturing system engineering ontology model on the semantic web for inter-enterprise collaboration

“…Engineers working within a particular company or group will inevitably develop their own vocabulary, or common terms for particular issues, elements or activities and these will need to be adjusted to be more practical and to precisely meet the requirements of different projects or teams. Hence, when people are brought together from different groups or companies, two common types of problem can occur in communications that share and exchange information, firstly, that the same term is being applied to different concepts (semantic problem) and secondly, that different terms may be used to denote the same entity (syntax problem) [1].…”

“…This means that sufficient cross-understanding of each other's terminology is essential. An approach for doing this, based on a Manufacturing System Engineering (MSE) Ontology Model has been proposed in [1,6]. It has been designed to provide the explicit semantics of a common meta-model for a semantic and syntax interoperability service to enable cross-understanding of the basic manufacturing concepts, properties of concepts, relationships and constraints in concepts between different MSE applications.…”