An Ontological Approach for Semantic Annotation of Supply Chain Process Models

Formalization of Semantic Annotation for Systems Interoperability in a PLM Environment

“…Contemporary PLM systems typically use workflow technology to provide support for process management. From many common business processes in the manufacturing industry in areas such as accounting, engineering design, product release, process planning, and production control, emerges the problem on versioning policies [2]. PLM represents an all-encompassing vision for managing all data relating to the design, production, support and ultimate disposal of manufactured goods.…”

“…The authors present a mechanism that integrates ontology-based product lifecycle knowledge distributed among different cooperative enterprises allowing all knowledge actors to share product lifecycle knowledge. Wang et al [2] stress out those current methods of process modeling which lack adequate specification of terminology used in supply chain process models. In a complete supply chain process, this leads to inconsistency and semantic conflicts between the interchanging of various process models.…”