Development of Engineering Ontology on the Basis of IDEF0 Activity Model

Abstract

The chemical process industry which aimed at the high increase in efficiency so far has been facing the issue of the technology transfer newly and its technology should be defined explicitly. However, in general, technology is mutually related, and the relation depends greatly on its engineering process. Therefore, technology and its mutual relation are to be defined within engineering process where the technology is applied. In this study, engineering ontology for chemical process industry to define its technology is developed. Recently, the trial to describe the engineering process as an activity model has started. The PIEBASE (Process Industry Executive for achieving Business Advantage using Standard for data Exchange), which is an international group of process industry, has provided an activity model describing enterprise activities of process industry. The PIEBASE activity model was applied as the reference model to provide the engineering ontology here.