The manufacturing sector is currently under pressures to swiftly accommodate new products
by quickly setting up new factories or retrofitting existing ones. In order to achieve this goal …

One of the significant challenges for current and future manufacturing systems is that of
providing rapid reconfigurability in order to evolve and adapt to mass customization. This …

The traditional way of engineering production systems requires static information flows
within and in between automation software, from field control software to manufacturing …

Current trends, such as individualization, increasing complexity, and specialization, require
digitization in engineering and production. However, digitization by itself often leads to so …

Global manufacturing with mass customization and ever shorter product life cycles have led
to the requirement for rapidly reconfigurable manufacturing systems. Advancements in …

Industrial manufacturing processes representation is a key challenge for leveraging
interoperability among business partners. The Semantic representation of information …

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in the manufacturing domain can be deployed to support
monitoring and analysis of production systems of a factory in order to improve, support, or …

One core concept of Industry 4.0 is establishing highly autonomous manufacturing
environments. In the vision of Industry 4.0, the product leads its way autonomously through …

Ontologies are needed for agent communication as they provide means for describing
intended semantics of the language used for expressing the content of messages. We show …

Although ontology has gained wide attention in the area of information systems, a criticism
typical of the early days is still rehearsed here and there. Roughly, this criticism says …