A centralized translation interface based on the PSIM ontology

This paper reports on progress of the IMS PSIM project, of which one of the goals is to support the sharing and the exchange of knowledge about Manufacturing Enterprise during the phase of designing or redesigning the enterprise or part of it. The PSIM environment aims to improve the communication between the different actors implied in the design or redesign, and to increase the exchange of shared information between tools supporting enterprise analysis according to different perspectives (logistic, technologic and human). In this paper, we focus on a centralized interface to enable different tools used inside an enterprise (ERP, NEU, ergonomic and socio-technique tools) to communicate about shared data. This interface is based on enterprise ontologies that conform to the ENV 40003 Reference Architecture. We first deal with the description on the interface then we present some feature of the translation component.