Product Ontology (PRONTO)

Ontology Info

Field	Value
Acronyme	PRONTO
Description	PRONTO (PRoduct ONTOlogy) is an ontology for the Product Modelling domain, able to efficiently handle product variants, which defines and integrates two hierarchies to represent product information: the Abstraction Hierarchy (AH) and the Structural one (SH). The structural hierarchy of products is a tool to handle product information associated with the multiple available recipes or processes to manufacture a particular product or a set of similar products. The formal specification presented in the paper also includes mechanisms to infer structural information from the explicit knowledge represented at each of the AH levels: Family, VariantSet and Product. This proposal efficiently handles a great number of variants and allows representing product information with distinct granularity degrees, which is a requirement for planning activities taking place at different time horizons. PRONTO easily manages crucial features that should be taken into account in a product representation, such as the efficient handling of product families and variants concepts, composition and decomposition structures and the possibility of specifying constraints.
Format	OWL

Metric	Value
Classes	38
Individuals	0
Properties	31
Max Depth	2
Max Child Count	9
Average Child Count	2
Classes With One Child	0
Classes With More Than 25 Children	0
Classes With No Definition	1