CO-PLM

CO-PLM is a core ontology for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) based on the foundational ontology DOLCE+DnS Ultralite (DUL). Its design and application is described in the listed publications.

Repository Content

This repository consists of the following subdirectories.

• Ontology Patterns: .owl-files implementing the CO-PLM core ontology
• Demo Instances
  • Blue Train Instances: .owl-files containing demo instances of the train model (see Technical Report)
  • Large Part Numbers: .owl-files containing synthetic product data with increasing part counts (see Technical Report)

The Technical Report is no longer updated in this repository. See DOI:10.3233/SSW210012 or https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/56701 for the most recent published work on CO-PLM⁵.

Ontology Patterns

CO-PLM consists of multiple ontology patterns, each combining a set of associated concepts.

Product Part Information Entity Pattern

This is the most fundamental pattern of CO-PLM. It introduces information entities based on DUL.

Product Part Information Object Pattern

Here, different information objects related to PLM are described.

Product Part Information Realization Pattern

In this pattern the most common forms of information realizations in PLM context are formalized.

Product Part Pattern

This pattern distinguishes between Product Part Masters (social objects) and Physical Product Parts (physical objects).

PLM Workflow Pattern

Importing strukt ², this pattern integrates workflows into CO-PLM.

Access Regulation Rule Pattern

Based on InFo ³, this pattern allows specifying policies for access regulation in context of PLM.

References

¹ Gangemi, A. (2016): DOLCE+DnS Ultralite (DUL): ontologydesignpatterns.org. URL: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Ontology:DOLCE+DnS_Ultralite

² Scherp, A.; Eißing, D.; Staab, S. (2011): strukt - A Pattern System for Integrating Individual and Organizational Knowledge Work: ISWC 2011, pp. 569-584. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

³ Kasten, A.; Scherp, A. (2015): Ontology-Based Information Flow Control of Network-Level Internet Communication. In: IJSC 9 (01) 2015, pp. 1–45.

Publications

⁴Falko Schoenteich, Andreas Kasten, and Ansgar Scherp. A Pattern-Based Core Ontology for Product Lifecycle Management based on DUL. In Workshop on Ontoloty Design and Patterns (WOP) colocated at International Semantic Web Coference (ISWC), CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2018

⁵Falko Schoenteich, Andreas Kasten, and Ansgar Scherp. Secure Product Lifecycle Management with CO-PLM. In Advances in Pattern based Ontology Engineering. IOS Press, 2021