A reference model for common understanding of capabilities and skills in manufacturing

A Köcher, A Belyaev, J Hermann, J Bock… - at …, 2023‏ - degruyter.com
In manufacturing, many use cases of Industrie 4.0 require vendor-neutral and machine-
interpretable information models to describe, implement and execute resource functions …

A research agenda for AI planning in the field of flexible production systems

A Köcher, R Heesch, N Widulle… - 2022 IEEE 5th …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manufacturing companies face challenges when it comes to quickly adapting their
production control to fluctuating demands or changing requirements. Control approaches …

A formal capability and skill model for use in plug and produce scenarios

A Köcher, C Hildebrandt… - 2020 25th IEEE …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manufacturing companies face an environment that is dominated by influences which affect
the usage of their manufacturing equipment. Trends like shortening life cycles of products …

Capabilities and skills in manufacturing: A survey over the last decade of etfa

R Froschauer, A Köcher, K Meixner… - 2022 IEEE 27th …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industry 4.0 envisions Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) to foster adaptive
production of mass-customizable products. Manufacturing approaches based on capabilities …

IEC 61499 distributed design patterns

L Sonnleithner, B Wiesmayr… - 2021 26th IEEE …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEC 61499 emerged as a language for modeling distributed control systems. An Application
is a platform-independent model that is comprised of modular components. High reusability …

Towards semantic management of on-device applications in industrial IoT

H Ren, D Anicic, TA Runkler - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the industry. Powered by pervasive embedded
devices, the Industrial IoT (IIoT) provides a unique solution for retrieving and analyzing data …

On the use of large language models to generate capability ontologies

LMV da Silva, A Kocher, F Gehlhoff… - 2024 IEEE 29th …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capability ontologies are increasingly used to model functionalities of systems or machines.
The creation of such onto-logical models with all properties and constraints of capabilities is …

Toward a method to generate capability ontologies from natural language descriptions

LMV da Silva, A Kocher, F Gehlhoff… - 2024 IEEE 29th …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve a flexible and adaptable system, capabil-ity ontologies are increasingly
leveraged to describe functions in a machine-interpretable way. However, modeling such …

A formal skill model to enable reconfigurable assembly systems

L Van De Ginste, A De Cock… - … Journal of Production …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
As assembly systems move into the era of mass customisation, the complexity of design
processes,(re) configurations and operations rises. Well-structured data are key in kee** …

Modeling and executing production processes with capabilities and skills using ontologies and BPMN

A Köcher, LMV Da Silva, A Fay - 2022 IEEE 27th International …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current challenges of the manufacturing industry require modular and changeable
manufacturing systems that can be adapted to variable conditions with little effort. At the …