During recent years, globalization has had an impact on the competitive capacity of
industries, forcing them to integrate their productive processes with other, geographically …

In the last years, attention has been devoted to the development of ontologies, which are ICT
conceptual models allowing a formal and shared representation of a particular domain of …

In a globalised world the process industry faces challenges regarding data management.
Rising demands for agility and rapid shortening of innovation cycles have lead to project …

Industry is facing an era characterised by unpredictable market changes and by a turbulent
competitive environment. The key to compete in such a context is to achieve high degrees of …

This paper proposes a manufacturing core concepts ontology (MCCO) aimed at providing
support for product life cycle interoperability. The potential focus of the work is …

Extensive advancement in the field of the joining science has led to the development of a
wide range of joining processes and techniques. Welding is one of the most widely used …

Production-centric international standards are intended to serve as an important route
towards information sharing across manufacturing decision support systems. As a …

Cloud manufacturing is a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of
reconfigurable manufacturing resources that can be rapidly encapsulated, provisioned and …

Abstract Industry 4.0 is a technology-driven manufacturing process that heavily relies on
technologies, such as the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, web services, and big …

Abstract The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) faces a fragmentation of interfaces along
information modeling formats, communication protocols and service interfaces. This …