Ontology-based system for supporting manufacturing sustainability

Antonio Giovannini (1) , Alexis Aubry (1) , Hervé Panetto (1) , Michele Dassisti (2) , Hind El Haouzi (1)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 DMMM - Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management

Sustainability is one of the biggest challenges of this century either for the environment or economical growth. The required cultural shift needs challenging action that will involve deeply software and hardware aspect of manufacturing processes. In this paper, the software part of the matter is addressed by proposing a product centric ontology, in which concepts of product, processes and resources are associated to functions and sustainable manufacturing knowledge. The aim is to design a knowledge-based system that, simulating a sustainable manufacturing expert, is able to automatically identify change opportunities and to propose alternatives on the basis of the existing production scenario.

Mots clés: Sustainability; Manufacturing Processes; Knowledge-Based Systems; Expert Systems; Ontology

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Antonio Giovannini, Alexis Aubry, Hervé Panetto, Michele Dassisti, Hind El Haouzi. Ontology-based system for supporting manufacturing sustainability. Annual Reviews in Control, 2012, 36 (2), pp.309-317. ⟨10.1016/j.arcontrol.2012.09.012⟩. ⟨hal-00728192⟩