Life cycle management of production facilities using semantic web technologies

High added value along the life cycle stages design, installation, operation, adaptation and disposal of production facilities is achieved by services. Activities like commissioning, maintenance, reuse or training are knowledge intensive and require efficient ways of managing relevant knowledge. Distributed semantic web knowledge bases enable companies or networks to make knowledge explicitly available to all involved agents at the right place and on the right time. This paper presents a semantic web based approach for the life cycle management of production facilities, and verifies it on a reuse planning case study of an automotive body-in-white facility.