Ontologies provide an opportunity to tackle the interoperability challenge in digital
manufacturing. Although ontologies have been used in numerous industrial projects, the …

Model-Based Definition (MBD) is being adopted by the manufacturing industry as a single
source for all product information in place of conventional 2D drawings. This paper aims to …

Industry has been chasing the dream of integrating and linking data across the product
lifecycle and enterprises for decades. However, industry has been challenged by the fact …

Model-Based 3D engineering has gained wide popularity in recent times for various
Computer-Aided Engineering applications, bypassing the need for 2D drawings, thereby …

Distributed production paradigms have grown in discrete manufacturing as discrete products
are increasingly made by global, distributed networks. Challenges faced by discrete …

With their practical introduction by the 1970s, virtual product data have emerged to a primary
technical source of intelligence in manufacturing. Modern organization have since then …

There is a convergence of interests in cyber-physical systems, systems engineering, and
manufacturing innovation in the United States. The US National Institute of Standards and …

With access to a set of previously unpublished data focusing on implementation of digital
manufacturing capabilities (Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing, and digital manufacturing) …

A digital divide is emerging in industry between large defense and commercial
manufacturers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and the Small and Medium-sized …

Exchange and reuse of three-dimensional (3D) product models are hampered by the
absence of trust in product-lifecycle data quality. The root cause of the missing trust is years …