Knowledge-based integration of industrial plant models

Abstract

The planning and engineering of industrial plants is characterized by a heterogeneous landscape of tools and data formats covering multiple engineering aspects, such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, etc. To provide plant engineers in different roles with an integrated view on engineering data, we propose a conceptual modelling approach based on MOF layering for representing plant knowledge across multiple disciplins. Furthermore, we suggest to instantiate this conceptual modelling approach on a semantic technology stack featuring semantic data representation based on RDF and web-based plant navigation in a semantic Wiki.

Semantics to the Shop Floor: Towards Ontology Modularization and Reuse in the Automation Domain

“…wiring information can also be expressed. In Abele et al (2013), formal semantics of CAEX were proposed using OWL in order to enable automatic validation of the CAEX plant model. It was identified, that it is rather hard to capture all semantic aspects of the standard correctly as information are only available as informal textual standard and not described in detail precisely enough.…”

“…A more detailed discussion on the modularization and language aspects of automation models can be found, e.g., in Abele and Grimm (2013). Once a suitable structure with complementing ontology modules is available, still work has to be done to select, integrate and maybe even extend modules relevant to a specific use case.…”