Products information interoperability in manufacturing systems
Résumé
Information flows and products traceability are considered as tools to protect consumer safety. To meet traceability requirements, it is mandatory to find a system able to trace all relevant information related to the product lifecycle. This information is quite often scattered within organizations. The heterogeneity of applications induces a sort of “Babel tower effect”, which causes traceability problems, leading systems to fail at collecting information from different and heterogeneous sources to effectively trace the product lifecycle. Generally speaking, this kind of problem falls within the umbrella of interoperability problems. This paper postulates a different point of view to resolve these problems, the product-driven point of view, starting from the observation that the product is the common element perceived in all manufacturing operations and that added values are engraved on it unequivocally. The paper extends previous research activities by sketching a common information model, embedded in the product itself that stores all technical product data, with respect to the product traceability, during its lifecycle. In order to express and share product information in a model, used by all applications of the enterprise, it is necessary to formalize and identify the concepts related to products technical data. This paper proposes to adopt a Product Ontology, based on existing standards, to support seamless enterprises systems interoperability and make easier information recovery easier for the products traceability.
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