Ontology mining for platform extraction in product development

In this paper, a Product-Process Ontology is developed to capture, design and organize the product data knowledge in a manner that computer can use and manipulate it meaningfully. It is proposed to enhance the manageability of large amount of product data and ultimately influence the basic organization´s functions such as customer order processing, variety management, production planning, material and capacity planning etc. Moreover, an ontology mining technique is proposed to exploit the available product data information for designing a platform that offers minimum production cost, without hampering the performance of the product. As a demonstration, five products from a family of circular saw is considered to validate the applicability and robustness of proposed architecture.