Recipe-based Integrated Semantic Product, Process, Resource (PPR) Digital Modelling Methodology

Virtual engineering methods based on digital modelling and simulations have potential to improve analysis and performance of manufacturing systems. Current generation digital modelling techniques in view of systems design and life cycle modelling attempts to integrate aspects of product, process and resource requirements. Despite these advances, to facilitate rapid design and provide support for the selection of processes and resources, there is the need to semantically model and integrate product-process requirements with resource capabilities. This paper therefore p resents a ‘recipe-based’ approach to modelling based on ontologies with capability to rapidly define and select resource sys tems meeting product a nd process requirements. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of th e International Scientific Committee of “The 47th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems” in the person of the Conference Chair Professor Hoda ElMaraghy.