Supporting Linked Engineering Data Management of Smart Product Systems Through Semantic Platform Services
Résumé
The increasing industrial relevance of connected smart product systems, enhanced individualized customer requirements, regulatory boundary conditions as well as advanced value networks and volatile international markets determine a new level of engineering complexity. Current engineering processes are enabled by a large number of IT applications, which are partially orchestrated by product lifecycle management solutions. Considering the dramatically increasing complexity, the IT applications are often not adequately connected as a whole, leading to interruptions in the process chains and finally resulting in quality problems, time expenditure, and additional costs.To support seamless engineering processes, a sufficiently linked information system structure is necessary. Due to the often-existing best-of-breed solutions and historically grown IT infrastructures, the direct point-to-point coupling of IT systems among each other requires disproportionately high efforts. As an approach to improve the existing situation, integration platforms utilizing loose coupling of individual heterogeneous engineering IT applications by semantic web technologies could be used to create a comprehensive, linked engineering data structure.This paper presents a conceptual IT-Service approach that utilizes this linked data structure to address problems in the area of information retrieval, data exchange, and data quality. A fundamental service function enables easy access to the information scattered throughout the whole organization. This approach could contribute to a high level of transparency within the company’s internal processes and relationships between data across individual engineering IT applications. The proposed concepts for IT platform services facilitate the exchange of data between different software applications and the standardized checking and documentation of data quality.
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