Reference Ontologies for Global Production Networks

摘要

The development and utilisation of flexible, reconfigurable Global Production Network organisations presents issues for the sharing and reuse of information and knowledge between systems and domains. The research approach put forward in this paper posits that manufacturing reference ontologies can provide the necessary underlying flexibility in a semantic-base to support interoperability. Moreover for that to be of real value to industry it needs to be commonly applicable across the breadth of manufacturing business and therefore be offered as a standard.