Standards for Enterprise Interoperability Workshop 2015
6th International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2015)
27th May 2015
Claire Palmer, Esmond Neil Urwin, Ester Palacios Rodríguez, Francisco Sánchez Cid, José Miguel Pinazo-Sánchez, Sonja Pajkovska-Goceva, Anne-
Françoise Cutting-Decelle, Robert Ian Marr Young
Intelligent Systems Configuration Services for Flexible Dynamic Global Production Networks (FLEXINET) project no. 608627 is funded under the
Seventh Framework Programme FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF (RTD)
Standardised semantic models to support the configuration of global
production networks
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Contents
FLEXINET Project - Introduction
Reference Ontology for Global Production
Networks
Summary and Future Work
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To understand how best to configure and re-
configure a global production network, in
the context of ever changing product-service
requirements.
To provide services that support the design
and provision of flexible interoperable
networks of production systems that can
rapidly and accurately be re-configured.
FLEXINET Aims
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Legal factors
Social factors
Economic factors
Political factors
Technological factors
Risk factors
A world of Production Systems, Service Systems, markets and external factors
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Evaluate potential Product-Service Systems Configurations
Tactical business model configuration
Business cost and risk
evaluation
Product-Service Co-evolution
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A Reference Ontology for Global Production Networks
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Why bother with formal ontologies?
Capture Knowledge about your “world” of interest • knowledge harmonisation • clearly defined vocabularies • computer interpretable -> consistency checks • use KB to answer questions
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Building a new ontology for every problem domain is expensive and negates any real potential for consistency and therefore any real
capability for knowledge harmonisation.
Enterprise ontologies must be built from a common base
for ease of construction, effective interoperability and
flexible re-use
External Factors
Risk Factors
Markets Locations
Production Systems
Products
Product Systems
Service Systems
Goods Services
Product-Service Production Reference Ontologies
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Key Models of significance
External Factors Risk Factors
Markets Locations
Production Systems
Products
Product Production
Systems
Service Production
Systems
Goods Services
Product-Service Production Reference Ontologies
Note: All ontologies in FLEXINET are modelled in the “Common Logic” based “Knowledge Frame Language” and ECLIF from Highfleet inc. Initial concepts and relationships are illustrated graphically in UML
Focus for ISO 20534 a new standard: Formal Semantic Models for the Configuration of
Global Production Networks (SP-NET)
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A Reference Ontology for Global Production Networks
FLEXINET is concerned with modelling the elements of global
production network systems
FLEXINET will use these models to support ‘what-if” queries on the
configuration of these elements into global production systems
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Level 1: Systems 12 of 19
class Lev el 1 - System Relationships
Basic
Role
System
Input Output Resource Control
Level 0 - Core::
TimeSpan
playsRole
InformationEnergy Material
Scenario
1..*
2..*
requiresA
1..*
0..*
affectsState0..*
0..*
0..*
2..*
0..*
affectsState
0..*
0..*
inScenario
0..*
1..*
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Level 1: Role in context (example) class Role in Context
Service Market
Physical Product Market
Product_Oriented_Market:
System
SupaDry:
EnergySavingDryer
WhiteGood12:
Product
playsRole
TimeSpan
DryingResource:
Resource
ClothesDrying_ProductService:
SystemplaysRole
DryClothes:
Product
requiresA
requiresA
requiresA
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Level 1: KFL formal definition 14 of 19
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Level 2: Network 15 of 19
class Lev el 2 - Network Concepts
Network Product
Lev el 1 - Systems::
Role
Lev el 1 - Systems::
System
Lev el 1 - Systems::
Information
Env iron FactorCustomer Supplier
2..*
1..*
2..*requiresA1..*
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Level 4: Global Production Network
class Lev el 4 - Network
Lev el 2 - Designed
Systems::Network
Basic
Lev el 1 - Systems::System
Role
Lev el 2 - Designed
Systems::Product
Lev el 3 - Manufacturing Business
Systems::Manufacturing NetworkLev el 3 - Manufacturing
Business Systems::
Manufactured Product
Basic
Lev el 3 - Manufacturing
Business Systems::
Gateway
Role
Lev el 1 - Systems::Input
Role
Lev el 1 - Systems::Output
Production Network
Basic
Start Ev ent
Basic
End Ev ent
Actor
Producer
Actor
Lev el 2 - Designed
Systems::Supplier
Actor
Lev el 2 - Designed
Systems::Customer
Global Production
Network
Role
Lev el 1 - Systems::
Resource
Information
Lev el 2 - Designed Systems::
Env iron Factor
1..*
1..*
1..*
1..*
1..*
1..*
1..*
1..*
1
1
1
1
1..*
1..*
1..*
From “Systems” (Lvl.1)
to
“Networks” (Lvl.2)
to
“Global Production Networks” (Lvl.4)
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Approach to Standardisation
New Work Item submitted to ISO
ISO20534:2015
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Summary
GPN reference ontology has been developed using end
user needs and requirements.
All levels are being actively developed.
NWI 20534:2015 has been submitted to ISO for
development and ratification.
Test approach and validate it against the end user
requirements using industrial use cases.
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Reference Ontology: Lots of concepts identified at level 2
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Level 2: Basics (examples) 21 of XX
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Level 2: Roles (examples) 22 of XX
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Level 2: MSEE (examples) 23 of XX
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Level 2: Risk (examples) 24 of XX
class Level 2 - Roles
Risk
notes
Derived from Dobrila
Risk Factors in GPN.
A Risk only exists in
relation to sth.
External
Risk
Information
Risk
Supply
Risk
Production
Risk
Logistics RiskDemand Risk Control
Risk
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Level 2: External Factors (examples) 25 of XX
class External Factors
Information
External
Factors
Political
Factors
Economic
Factors
Legislation/Legal
Factors
Social Factors
notes
From Boris
Conceptual Model
Technological Factors
notes
From Boris Conceptual
Model.
Price
Inflation
Currency Risk
notes
Currency
price change
Import
Control
Export
Control
Political
Labour
Conflicts
TaxWarTerrorist
attack
Embargo Strike
notes
Could be
political or
social
Industrial
Dispute