The design and development of manufacturing process knowledge base system based on ontology

Abstract

The distributed collaboration based on process knowledge has become a main mode for manufacturing. Making good use of the manufacturing process knowledge is becoming more and more critical. In this paper, the manufacturing process knowledge is firstly defined and organized. A knowledge base construction method based on ontology is introduced. A three-tier system architecture of the manufacturing process knowledge base system is then illustrated with detailed main functions. Afterwards, a manufacturing process knowledge base system based on ontology is presented with respect to multi-technology fields. The implementation shows that the effective management and reuse of the knowledge can be realized.