Chapter 3: PLM/SCM integration initiatives

Title: Ontology-Based Support for Semantic Interoperability between SCM and PLM

Author(s): Alexander Smirnov, Michael Pashkin, Tatiana Levashova, Nikolai Chilov

Address: St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14th line, St.Petersburg, 199178 Russia | St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14th line, St.Petersburg, 199178 Russia | St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14th line, St.Petersburg, 199178 Russia | St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14th line, St.Petersburg, 199178 Russia

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2005 pp. 127 - 136

Abstract/Summary: SCM taking into account product life-cycle factors seems to be one of the industrial challenges of the next years. The paper discusses an ontology-based approach supporting semantic interoperability between SCM and PLM that could form different viewpoints on product specifications. Ontology-driven architecture of the approach is presented. Used knowledge representation formalism of object-oriented constraint networks is described. The approach is illustrated via building an application ontology for supply chain management identifying elements related to product lifecycle management.

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