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

DIEGO GIMENEZ; MARCELA VEGETTI; GABRIELA HENNING; HORACIO LEONE

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

Elsevier

Año: 2006 vol. 21 p. 2219 - 2224

1743-5110

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 product-related information in such ESCs, where product models are the fundamental information source. This work describes an extension of the product information framework specified by PRONTO PRoduct ONTOlogy), providing the foundations for a Distributed Product Data Management (DPDM) system supported by Semantic Web technology. The property and property value concepts were introduced in the ontology with the purpose of formalizing the data aggregation and disaggregation processes required by production planning activities.