ISO 15531 MANDATE: A Product-process-resource based Approach for Managing Modularity in Production Management

Abstract

Managing modularity and commonality in product development more and more needs modularity and commonality in the production process, with the objectives of reducing manufacturing costs, time to market and improving quality. A critical issue is the way of managing data, information and knowledge: data most of the time structured according to data models, often using proprietary formats, leading to consistency problems for the exchanges. The use of international standards is a good way of improving quality of the information systems used in production management, since they facilitate interoperability of the software tools used. They also contribute to the integration of the production process in a product life cycle management-based approach. This study presents the ISO 15531 MANDATE standard for the exchanges of industrial manufacturing management data. In terms of industrial maturity, MANDATE is a new standard, whose development is based on research work done by the authors and whose parts have not reached the IS status (necessary for sake of stability) at the same time. For this reason, the different models proposed by the standard have not been implemented altogether at the same time. Indeed numerous standards do exist in the domain of production information management, however the information models proposed are not always compatible in between them, the vocabulary used is not defined in the same way even though the terms used are the same: ontology-based approaches are sometimes necessary to find the common `essence' of the information handled, but they can be integrated in software interfaces, thus making easier to convey a higher level of semantics in the exchanges. This study presents one of those approaches, defined in the INTEROP NoE EC funded project.

SMErobotics: Smart Robots for Flexible Manufacturing

“…We have developed a model-based architecture for SME-suitable production systems that extends the well-known productprocess-resource modeling approach [8] with a technology model [9] (Figure 4) that provides specific knowledge about manufacturing technologies, e.g., the optimal orientation of a welding torch relative to a work piece or parameters such as the typical voltage or wire feed speed for the given materials. In SMErobotics, these models are either serialized to Automation-ML [9] for higher compatibility with existing automation solutions or represented in a semantic description language (see the following section), which allows logical reasoning on the represented models to be conducted.…”

Skill-Based Asset Management: A PLM-Approach for Reconfigurable Production Systems

“…Furthermore, a product is an output of the process execution on a certain resource that transforms input products [31]. Another PPR approach that defines the different relations between the objects is the OZONE-model presented in [32]. There however, the product and the resource both provide constraints for the process (called activity) but don't have any direct relation to each other.…”

Desarrollo de una Ontología de Acuerdo con el Paradigma de Sistemas Holónicos de Manufactura

“…El desarrollo del concepto Sistemas Holónicos de Manufactura (Holonic Manufacturing Systems, HMS) es guiado por métodos y principios de ingeniería de software, con lo que se hace latente la necesidad en la gestión de datos, información y conocimiento: los datos en su mayoría son estructurados de acuerdo con modelos de datos, en los sistemas holónicos los datos son contenidos en ontologías propias, lo que conlleva a la consistencia de problemas en el intercambio. El uso de estándares internacionales es una buena manera de mejorar la calidad de los sistemas de información utilizados en la gestión de la producción, ya que facilitan la interoperabilidad de las herramientas de software utilizadas [7]. De igual manera, las ontologías también contribuyen a la integración del proceso de producción bajo un enfoque basado en la gestión del ciclo de vida del producto.…”