PRoduct ONTOlogy. Defining product-related concepts for logistics planning activities

DIEGO GIMENEZ; MARCELA VEGETTI; GABRIELA HENNING; HORACIO LEONE

COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY

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Año: 2006

0166-3615

Current Internet-based technologies enable the operation of Extended Supply Chains (ESCs) and introduce new requirements on enterprise systems. There is a real need to manage and share product-related information in such ESCs, where product models are the fundamental information source. This paper describes an extension of the product data framework introduced by PRONTO (PRoduct ONTOlogy). The extended model provides the foundations for a Distributed Product Data Management (DPDM) system and is fully consistent with the idea of managing the product information according to two hierarchies: Structural Hierarchy (SH) and Abstraction Hierarchy (AS). They formalize the data aggregation and disaggregation processes required by logistics planning activities. Some relations among concepts included in previous works were redefined. In addition the property and property value concepts were incorporated in the ontology with the purpose of handling different types of data.