A semantic support to improve the collaborative control of manufacturing processes in industries

This paper put forwards how to improve the collaborative work of company engineers for the control of a manufacturing process. Sharing and using same manufacturing information in industries -such as control indicators- is necessary to efficiently ensure the control task. However, the generalization of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems in manufacturing companies to get such indicators has rapidly entailed the increase of the quantity of the digital resources, where a resource represents manufacturing data presented in specific formats. Retrieving such resources may become impossible without a semantic support. Our solution provides a semantic framework to enhance the retrieval of manufacturing information through the use of a business ontology and a domain-specific dictionary. The specificity of this business semantics is that it brings the resources closer to the business needs on one hand, and it unifies the business vocabulary in the company on other hand.