Towards a formal manufacturing reference ontology

Abstract

1 In a seminal work published in 1952, "The chemical basis of morphogenesis"-considered as the true start point of the modern theoretical biology-, A. M. Turing established the core of what today we call "natural computation" in biological systems, intended as self-organizing dynamic systems. In this contribution we show that the "intentionality", i.e., the "relation-to-object" characterizing biological morphogenesis and cognitive intelligence, as far as it is formalized in the appropriate ontological interpretation of the modal calculus (formal ontology), can suggest a solution of the reference problem that formal semantics is in principle unable to offer, because of Gödel and Tarski theorems. Such a solution , that is halfway between the "descriptive" (Frege) and the "causal" (Kripke) theory of reference, can be implemented only in a particular class of self-organizing dynamic systems, i.e., the dis-sipative chaotic systems characterizing the "semantic information processing" in biological and neural systems.

Building a rigorous foundation for performance assurance assessment techniques for “smart” manufacturing systems

“…Ontology is the formalized description of concepts/relationships and is often designed to be expressed through standardized formal languages (like OWL and RDFS). Researchers over the years have contributed to the development of ontology in the manufacturing domain and a list of relevant ontology has been reviewed and summarized by Zahid Usman et al [14]. However, the ontology for providing a common and consistent understanding for the key performance assurance activity in the manufacturing domains, has been rarely studied.…”

Reference ontologies to support the development of global production network systems

“…As part of this it developed a set of core concepts to specifically enable the sharing of knowledge across design and production domains. Design and production concepts were specialised from generic foundation *Response to Reviewers -no author names/affiliations ontology concepts in order to provide the required level of interoperability [5].…”

A reference ontology approach to support global product-service production

“…From this a set of core concepts were developed representing the design and manufacturing domains. It was shown that it was possible to specialise these core concepts to enable interoperability (Usman et al, 2013).…”