Manufacturing knowledge management based on OWL ontology

Emerging the Enterprise Semantic Web technology leverages model-driven and loosely-coupled data management schemes that can capture domain knowledge,everyday busi-ness data and so on in reusable formats.By decoupling core product knowledge of ERP system,such as BOM(Bill of Material),in models,not in code,it can be repurposed by the many different kinds of ERP systems that might require it.We utility an OWL ontology approach to support mechanical parts knowledge storage and facilitate information retrieval.Protege and its OWL and PAL plugins are used for ontology development of concepts and relationships of mechanism domain.This paper mainly focuses on demonstrating the way in which an OWL ontology is built through using a renovated methodology,and the ability to infer new facts with a description logic classifier,RACER.We also show how this ontology can be reused and shared in Semantic Web.