Approach for a Machine-Interpretable Provision of Standard Contents Using Welded Constructions as an Example

Abstract

In order to meet the quality standards required in today's product development process, the designer must be able to draw on the knowledge contained in standards at all times. However, in today's digital work environment, these are usually only available in paper or PDF form. To support the designer during the product development process, a research project examine how knowledge from standards can be made available digitally and integrated into his working environment. This paper presents a concept with a RESTful service as a central knowledge base, which provides knowledge in the form of microservices. The implementation is carried out using welding assemblies as an example. To achieve the high-quality requirements and to implement them, the standard contents had to be prepared in a machine-interpretable and cross system way.

Automatic knowledge graph creation from engineering standards using the example of formulas

“…Although XML serves as the starting format for SMART Standards activities, it should be noted that the current version in NISO STS does not meet the requirements for machine-actionability (Loibl et al, 2020), thus preventing the realisation of the generic user stories described above. One approach is to transform the XML content into a semantically enriched knowledge representation, while previous research has already shown that knowledge graphs (KG) can enable machine-actionability (Manoharan et al, 2019;Ehring et al, 2021). Hereby, a KG is a semantic network that interconnects data by representing entities and their relations whereas the knowledge structure is referred to as ontology (Huang et al, 2023).…”

“…Thus, solutions are required to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge work. Engineering standards are a valuable source of knowledge and influence several decisions along the development process (Manoharan et al, 2019). These documents are distributed by numerous organisations, such as the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) or the Association of German Engineers (VDI) (Hicks et al, 2002), and enable companies to reduce development costs and time (Bender and Gericke, 2021).…”

Representation and Application of Digital Standards Using Knowledge Graphs

“…Thus, the current usage of standards is inefficient and not compatible with digital knowledge management and its integration into product development processes. (Manoharan et al, 2019;Ziegenfuss, 2020;Loibl and Nagarajah, 2019)…”