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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web for Manufacturing (OSEMA 2011), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29, 2011

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volume 748 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Sun SITE Central Europe, (2011)

Abstract

The necessity of continuous innovation and improvement in productivity presents the manufacturing industry with huge challenges. Not only is there a demand for more creative designs, there is also the need to improve support for streaming designs into production lines. Delivering products to the market involves the flow of information between several steps ranging from design to prototyping, manufacturing and distributing. Interoperability across software supporting these activities is notoriously limited. A semantic layer in the manufacturing sector may facilitate scenarios such as the development of new products considering restrictions and limitations of the manufacturing facility on the one hand and on the other hand considering customer needs. Here, the design of new the product is instantiated into a product ontology. This ontology has metadata including features related to materials, colors, dimensions, etc. Such features reflect customer preferences, but imply the necessity of processes to acquire and manage them. In a second step into this scenario,, the ontology of the manufacturing process can be instantiated by extracting features from the product ontology, thus enabling e.g. the automatic inferenced of manufacturability of the product. In this vein, ontologies and the Semantic Web facilitate the creation of such metadata and enable reasoning over product and process restriction. Although several approaches of this kind have been proposed, none of them are widely accepted so far, which means that there are still several issues requiring extensive discussion and consensus in the community. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a discussion scenario where theoretical positions, best practices, implementations, proposals of standards, and frameworks are presented. It will deserve special interest to discuss how the manufacturing industry can take advantage of Semantic Web technologies. OSEMA at ESWC 2011 aims to provide such scenario.

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