A foundational ontology for the modelling of manufacturing systems

Zaletelj, Viktor (author), Vrabič, Rok (author), Hozdić, Elvis (author), Butala, Peter (author)

Models of distributed manufacturing systems cannot be consistent without a formal ontology. In this paper, the ontology formulation and maintenance are addressed in the scope of a collaborative modelling environment – in which concurrency, consistency, and model life cycle management should be supported. Thus, an extensible foundational ontology for manufacturing – system modelling is proposed in which the formal definitions of the modelling environment itself enable the definition of the manufacturing system's elements. The presented approach ensures the consistency of ever-changing models. The ontology is integrated into a modelling framework through the concept of description layers that assist in the management of the model description's complexity. The feasibility of the approaches is illustrated in an industrial case study that models of a manufacturing system for material processing.

• Language: English
• Keywords: manufacturing system, modelling, collaborative environment, ontology
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2018
• Number of pages: Str. 129-141
• Numbering: Vol. 38
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-102330
• UDC: 658.5:004.738.5(045)
• ISSN on article: 1474-0346
• DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2018.06.009
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16126491
• Publication date in RUL: 21.08.2018

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Advanced engineering informatics : the science of supporting knowledge-intensive activities
• Shortened title: Adv. eng. inf.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 1474-0346
• COBISS.SI-ID: 7089686

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: proizvodni sistemi, modeliranje, skupno okolje, ontologija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0270
• Name: Proizvodni sistemi, laserske tehnologije in spajanje materialov

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Republic of Slovenia, Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Fund
• Project number: 11011-79/2013