Ontology-Based Skill Description Learning for Flexible Production Systems
This addresses the labor-intensive and domain-knowledge-heavy process for manufacturing companies aiming to optimize dynamic production environments.
The paper tackles the problem of manually generating formal skill descriptions for flexible manufacturing machines by introducing an ontology-based semi-automatic system that uses production logs and industrial ontologies with inductive logic programming, and evaluates its benefits and drawbacks.
The increasing importance of resource-efficient production entails that manufacturing companies have to create a more dynamic production environment, with flexible manufacturing machines and processes. To fully utilize this potential of dynamic manufacturing through automatic production planning, formal skill descriptions of the machines are essential. However, generating those skill descriptions in a manual fashion is labor-intensive and requires extensive domain-knowledge. In this contribution an ontology-based semi-automatic skill description system that utilizes production logs and industrial ontologies through inductive logic programming is introduced and benefits and drawbacks of the proposed solution are evaluated.