Service-based Semiconductor Manufacturing using the Digital Reference Ontology for Global Service Discovery

The challenges of the Industry 4.0 era require the effective combination of emerging automation and information technologies. Two important representatives of these core technologies are service oriented architectures that provide the technical basis for middleware as well as semantic web technologies that provide unique vocabulary. In this paper, we illustrate the combination of these two technologies with regard to a concrete scenario within the complex semiconductor supply chain environment. Providing the scenario, problem description and solution at utmost concreteness, this approach aims at overcoming the complexity within this domain. This paper illustrates the challenges and solutions during ontology development, and on a conceptual level the application scenario, decision-making support for human planners as well as the IT infrastructure based on the Arrowhead Framework.