An Ontological Approach to Integration of Planning and Scheduling Activities in Batch Process Industries

VEGETTI, MARCELA; HENNING, GABRIELA

Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering

Elsevier

Lugar: Copenague; Año: 2015 vol. 37 p. 995 - 1000

In the last decades, the integration of informatic applications supporting planning, scheduling and control has been a serious concern of the industrial community. Many standards have been developed to tackle this issue by addressing the exchange of data between the scheduling function and its immediate lower and upper levels in the planning pyramid. However, a more comprehensive approach is required to tackle integration problems, since this matter entails much more than data exchange. So, this article presents an ontological framework that provides the foundations to reach an effective interoperability among the various applications linked to scheduling activities.