Translating Between Ontologies For Agent Communication.

Overview and analysis of state of the art in ontologies for agent communication and proposals for further research, particularly in ontology mapping.Available from STL Prague, CZ / NTK - National Technical LibrarySIGLECZCzech Republi

Modeling of Mechanisms for Reconfigurable and Distributed Manufacturing Control System

Part 4: Reconfigurable ManufacturingInternational audienceThis paper presents the modeling of fault diagnosis mechanisms extending a method to design reconfigurable and distributed manufacturing control system. The method combines different techniques: service-oriented architecture, holonic and multi-agent system, production flow schema and input-output place-transition Petri net. An application example demonstrates advantages of the proposal, such as at cloud-based engineering, reuse, implementation and reconfiguration flexibility

Real-Time Data Sharing in Production Logistics : Exploring Use Cases by an Industrial Study

Production logistics systems consist often of a number of low value-added activities combined with a high degree of manual work. Therefore, increasing effectivity and responsiveness has always been a target for production logistics systems. Sharing data in real-time may have a considerable potential to increase effectivity and responsiveness. The first step to realise real-time data sharing is to have a clear understanding of current state of PL systems and their requirements. This work is performed an ‘as-is’ situation analysis of an industrial case aiming at identifying which areas and applications would benefit most from real-time data sharing. The findings take a step closer to have a better understanding of CPS and Industry 4.0.QC 20191125Digilo

A dynamic curation method for manufacturing-related knowledge

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Production Research on 18 Aug 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2016.1222089A method for the dynamic curation of manufacturing-related knowledge is proposed, based on the impact of successive paradigm introduction on the network structure within manufacturing companies. This draws together manufacturing system structure in terms of interacting component network types, the nature and consequences of knowledge silos and the underpinning dichotomous influence of language. The need and opportunities for an objective- rather than subjective paradigm-based view of manufacturing are identified, leading to a curation process in which paradigms and other knowledge specialisms are different viewpoints based on particular models of manufacturing processes and resources. The consequences of this are explored in terms of knowledge silo reduction, improved communication within component social- and information networks, increased operational resilience and better informed decision-making for future business

Industrial open source solutions for product life cycle management

The authors go through the open source for product life cycle management (PLM) and the efforts done from communities such as the open source initiative. The characteristics of the open source solutions are highlighted as well. Next, the authors go through the requirements for PLM. This is an area where more attention has been given as the manufacturers are competing with the quality and life cycle costs of their products. Especially, the need of companies to try to get a strong position in providing services for their products and thus to make themselves less vulnerable to changes in the market has led to high interest in product life cycle simulation. The potential of applying semantic data management to solve these problems discussed in the light of recent developments. In addition, a basic roadmap is presented as to how the above-described problems could be tackled with open software solutions