Study on Semantic-Aware Manufacturing Grid Architecture

In order to solve the knowledge-intensive problems in manufacturing industry, this paper introduces Semantic Web (SW) technology to Manufacturing Grid (MGrid). Resources and services in MGrid should be described in the well-defined meaning, so that computers can understand grid information to interoperate seamlessly. In the paper, a semantic-aware MGrid architecture (SAMGA) based on WS-Resource Framework (WSRF) is first presented, in which the stateless Web Services are semantically described using OWL-S and the stateful resources description are semantically enhanced using OWL. Then a semantic-enhanced information model is designed for SAMGA. At last, SAMGA is applied to the magnetic bearing resource and service sharing platform.