Factories are complex systems, which are characterized by interlinked and overlapping life
cycles of the constituent factory elements. Within this context, the heterogeneity of these life …

During the conceptual design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial
scenarios need to be evaluated against performance indicators in a collaborative …

The concurrent societal goals and environmental challenges force industries to become
more human-centric, sustainable, and resilient, which is envisioned as a value-oriented …

Semantic Web technologies are becoming more and more appealing to the community of
the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) users. The recent actions towards the development of …

In recent years, more manufacturing enterprises are building automated flexible production
lines (AFPLs) to satisfy the dynamic and diversified demand. Currently, static planning …

This research study deals with the early design and planning of manufacturing systems,
following a knowledge reuse approach. The proposed approach introduces a knowledge …

This paper proposes a multi-agent-based collaborative virtual manufacturing environment
(VME) to save energy consumption and improve efficiency in the manufacturing process. In …

The goal of this position paper is to introduce the research topics in engineering and the
motivations for the application of semantic technologies. A group called Ontology Based …

There is an increasing interest in developing ontological versions of engineering standards.
In general, this amounts to restating a given standard in some ontological language like …

A big challenge for manufacturers today is to create a flexible and efficient production
system. One way of managing this challenge is to establish a virtual factory, a virtual model …