Feature-based product modeling is the leading approach for the integrated representation of
engineering product data. On the one side, this approach has stimulated the development of …

The proposed approach in the paper is dedicated to enrichment of CAD models storage in
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems or archive databases. The paper considers …

The flourishing development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies calls for robust IT
methodologies and solutions to manage the plethora of data that is generated in the AM …

This paper presents an effective product design and manufacturing process based ontology
for manufacturing knowledge reuse. While a number of related efforts exist in the literature …

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 …

This paper proposes an ontology and CBR (case-based reasoning) based method which
overcomes the difficulty for computers to understand complex structures of various …

To achieve efficient development of high-quality product, manufacturing constraints must be
fully taken into account at the early design stage. However, designers lack in-depth …

For many years now, the importance of semantic technologies, that provide a formal, logic-
based route to sharing meaning, has been recognised as offering the potential to support …

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 …

With the proliferation of systems generating huge amounts of product information and the
increasing number of companies involved in the production processes, the efficient …