A product life cycle ontology for additive manufacturing

Munira Mohd Ali, Rahul Rai, J. Neil Otte, Barry Smith
2019 Computers in industry (Print)  
The manufacturing industry is evolving rapidly, becoming more complex, more interconnected, and more geographically distributed. Competitive pressure and diversity of consumer demand are driving manufacturing companies to rely more and more on improved knowledge management practices. As a result, multiple software systems are being created to support the integration of data across the product life cycle. Unfortunately, these systems manifest a low degree of interoperability, and this creates
more » ... blems, for instance when different enterprises or different branches of an enterprise interact. Common ontologies (consensusbased controlled vocabularies) have proved themselves in various domains as a valuable tool for solving such problems. In this paper, we present a consensusbased Additive Manufacturing Ontology (AMO) and illustrate its application in promoting re-usability in the field of dentistry product manufacturing.
doi:10.1016/j.compind.2018.12.007 fatcat:iisgppzvmfdkrbtbpdmpl6fihq