Rule-based Mechanism to Optimize Asset Management Using a Technical Documentation Ontology

Abstract

Organisations have consistently been looking for different ways to advance the usage of their engineering assets towards ensuring the asset performance at peak levels and increasing their revenue. This task is always supported within industrial environments by the technical documentation describing in a complete manner the asset and dictating how it should be managed. However, a gap between the original documentation instructions on the asset usage and the actual asset usage combined with a low understanding of the asset capabilities on how to best operate and maintain them may lead to human errors or negligence. A step-by-step ontology-based approach has been proposed to represent the knowledge included in the documentation concerning the asset's usage, maintenance and configuration. This paper focuses on the development step of a rule-based mechanism to identify and correct divergences in the actual asset usage from the documentation instructions towards improving or even optimizing the asset performance.

An ontology for maintenance procedure documentation

“…This ontology, however, relies heavily on data properties for storing values and does not conform with an upper ontology. This problem also present in a technical documentation ontology presented by Koukias and Kiritsis (2015) and an ontological analysis of manufacturing processes by Nagy et al (2021). This makes it difficult to re-use these ontologies and to integrate the ontology with existing ontologies (Katsumi and Grüninger, 2016).…”

“…However, the rigid relationships between concepts, such as "Station workstationHasResource Resource", means it has limited applicability to our work (as maintenance technicians rarely have a work station). In Section 7, we perform a further concept-level comparison between OMPD, and the ontologies described in Kortenkamp et al (2008), Németh et al (2010) and Koukias and Kiritsis (2015).…”

“…Ontology 3. Rule-based Mechanism to Optimise Asset Management Using Technical Documentation Ontology (Koukias and Kiritsis, 2015). Koukias and Kiristsis's ontology (Ontology 3) is designed to capture industrial technical documentation.…”

Ontology Based Optimization with Adaptive Network Based Fuzzy Inference System Based Health Maintenance System

“…Similar procedure is implemented in our proposed system but with PSO algorithm to improve the training phase using swarming procedure at every iterations. A ontology based automated clinical systems [13,16,17,18,22,25,26,27,29,30,31,32,33,34] has proved better in health care system and the association of fuzzy further enhanced the results [14,20,21,23,24,28]. Hence the use of ontology is inbuilt in the proposed system with fuzzy logic for Prakriti ailments.…”