Semantically Integrated Planning Model (SIMPM)

Ontology Info

Field	Value
Acronyme	SIMPM
Description	Semantically Integrated Manufacturing Planning Model(SIMPM), an upper-level ontology is a collection of OWL (Ontology Web Language) axioms, which may provide upper level semantics for capturing the knowledge of manufacturing process planning. It seeks to model three fundamental constraints of manufacturing process planning which are variety, time, and aggregation. This ontology is derived from a three dimensional planning model developed in a previous study. The primary goal of SIMPM foundation ontology is to link planning variables from one aggregation dimension to another by establishing logical links. In particular, every machinable feature of a part design is linked to suitable manufacturing processes, which in turn are linked to compatible machine and tool to use. The upper-level concepts of Manufacturing Process Planning(MPP) are extremely generic and the following help to demonstrate the efficacy of the set of axioms.
Format	OWL

Metric	Value
Classes	47
Individuals	3
Properties	15
Max Depth	5
Max Child Count	7
Average Child Count	2
Classes With One Child	11
Classes With More Than 25 Children	0
Classes With No Definition	32