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In the design anywhere manufacture anywhere paradigm, we need to have appropriate mechanisms for communicating design information to manufacturing software, in particular process planning. This is in addition to CAD-CAD interoperability. However, in current industrial practice, conceptual design, process/resource selection, time/cost estimation, detailed design, and process planning are performed independently, without integrated software tools. Design and manufacturing data and messages cannot be efficiently sent from one system to another. Interoperability is further complicated as we need to communicate between different domains (in contrast to CAD-CAD interoperability). In this paper, we first review the existing methods for product data exchange. Then we describe a new approach which improves the data exchange by taking into account the semantics of data. This approach is based on ontologies, which allows the formalization of concepts related to product development in an appropriate context. Finally, we verify this approach for two commercial software tools in the framework of design and process planning data exchange.
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Dartigues, C., Ghodous, P. (2002). Product Data Exchange Using Ontologies. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’02. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0795-4_29
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