Abstract
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) deals with information modelling across the entire lifespan of industrial products. The use of computer-based technologies for PLM purposes requires product knowledge to be specified in formal languages, so that the semantics of the modelling elements is explicitly defined in relation to experts’ conceptualisations. Ontologies used in PLM contexts are often developed to satisfy specific application requirements, and the meaning of the employed concepts is left unspecified. In this paper, we present a preliminary ontology focused on the notion of product from the engineering design and manufacturing perspectives. Our aim is to contribute at the development of a comprehensive ontological specification of product knowledge for product lifecycle modelling applications.
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The distinction between non-/essential requirements has to be set up according to domain and experts’ knowledge to avoid incoherent and unprincipled distinctions.
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Unity and material constitution are not formalised in this paper.
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A finer-grained formal representation of PR is required by taking into account temporal constraints.
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I am grateful to Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo and Nicola Guarino for their valuable comments. This work is supported by the VISCOSO project grant, financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento through the “Team 2011” funding programme.
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Sanfilippo, E.M. (2015). Towards an Ontological Formalization of Technical Product for Design and Manufacturing. In: Cuel, R., Young, R. (eds) Formal Ontologies Meet Industry. FOMI 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21545-7_7
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