Study on the description method of manufacturing capability based on description logics in cloud manufacturing

Manufacturing capability (MC) sharing is one of the most important innovations in cloud manufacturing (CMfg). In order to realize the on-demand usage of MC in the CMfg, the issue of how to describe MC need to be solved first. This paper proposes a new description method of MC based on description logics (DL) oriented to CMfg. Concepts and state of the art related to MC are summarized firstly, and then the characteristics and theoretical basis of current service description language are systematically analyzed. On this basis, the description model of MC is proposed. Finally, the static and dynamic information models based on DL of MC are mainly investigated combined with practical examples.