During recent years, globalization has had an impact on the competitive capacity of
industries, forcing them to integrate their productive processes with other, geographically …

The use of ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management (PLM) is gaining
importance and popularity, while at the same time it generates a lot of controversy in …

Compared with relying on the efforts of various enterprises collaborating on product lifecycle
activities, such as coordination, communication and control, the ability to effectively share …

Green manufacturing has been a major concern in recent years. As product lifecycle
management strategies embrace sustainability within its spectrum of multi-disciplinary …

The requirements for the interoperability of semantics and knowledge have become
increasingly important in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), in the drive towards …

The interoperability among a variety of systems, in or across manufacturing enterprises, has
been widely accepted as one of the important factors that affect the efficiency of production …

Ontologies are rapidly becoming popular in various research fields. There is a tendency
both in converting existing models into ontologies and in creating new models. In this work …

This paper proposes an approach for facilitating systems interoperability in a manufacturing
environment. It is based on the postulate that an ontological model of a product may be …

Knowledge mapping is a first and mandatory step in ontology definition. This paper
considers the lifecycle of products and systems, and discusses the creation of a knowledge …

Abstract Maintenance and Industrial Asset Management (AM) are fundamental business
processes in guaranteeing the availability of physical assets at minimum risk and cost, while …