Manufacturing Ontology Development Based on Industry 4.0 Demonstration Production Line

Abstract

The increasing pressures faced by manufacturers, the shortening of innovation cycles and the growing importance of high-efficiency manufacturing demand a higher versatility of factory automation. In order to achieve this target, engineering tasks currently performed manually need to be automated. In this case, ontologies emerge as a significant method for representing manufacturing knowledge in a machine-interpretable way. This knowledge can then be used by automated problem-solving methods to reconfigure the control software that coordinates and supervises manufacturing systems. Besides, Ontology can play a very important role in the process of creating as well as managing the knowledge. This paper addresses the important issues in developing domain-specific ontology for manufacturing used in industry 4.0 demonstration production line. A generic ontology is developed considering all the aspects about product from customized order to resulting production.