In the engineering and manufacturing domain, there is currently an atmosphere of departure to a new era of digitized production. In different regions, initiatives in these directions are known under different names, such as industrie du futur in France, industrial internet in the US or Industrie 4.0 in Germany. While the vision of digitizing production and manufacturing gained much traction lately, it is still relatively unclear how this vision can actually be implemented with concrete standards and technologies. Within the German Industry 4.0 initiative, the concept of an Administrative Shell was devised to respond to these requirements. The Administrative Shell is planned to provide a digital representation of all information being available about and from an object which can be a hardware system or a software platform. In this paper, we present an approach to developing such a digital representation based on semantic knowledge representation formalisms such as RDF, RDF Schema and OWL. We present our concept of a Semantic I4.0 Component which addresses the communication and comprehension challenges in Industry 4.0 scenarios using semantic technologies. Our approach is illustrated with a concrete example showing its benefits in a real-world use case.
The (OMM) is an XML-based format which allows for modeling of the information about individual physical elements @cite_17 . In this work, the memory of the elements is partitioned to include different types of data regarding the identification, name, etc. The idea of this approach was to bring a semantic layer to the physical components but still suffers the intrinsic limitations of XML. However, it is envisioned, that elements in the OMM (so called blocks) contain RDF and OWL payload data. Extending the concept of OMM @cite_24 is a framework for representation, management, and utilization of digital object memories The idea of bringing semantic descriptions of physical elements by combining OMM and a server realization has been conducted by @cite_6 . Nevertheless, this work is focused on the identification of the elements and still rely on the above mentioned limitations of OMM format.
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The SemProM format was basically designed for on-product RFID-based memories. Furthermore, some use cases demand centralized storage or data backups that cannot be achieved with on-product storage. For these cases (e.g., cheap products with very small labels, very large memories), a server-based solution might be more suitable. We developed the Object Memory Server (OMS) as an index server for product memories, based on the same set of metadata as the block format. The actual payload is outsourced to servers in the web. The URL used for accessing an OMS memory can be stored in simple and cheap RFID labels. Due to the large processing power of a server-based approach, the OMS can handle all SemProM incarnations, ranging from Reference SemProMs to Smart SemProMs. The conceptual ideas of the OMS were also transformed to provide a server-based solution for memories based on the W3C XG OMM format. Representing the semantics of unstructured scientific publications will certainly facilitate access and search and hopefully lead to new discoveries. However, current digital libraries are usually limited to classic flat structured metadata even for scientific publications that potentially contain rich semantic metadata. In addition, how to search the scientific literature of linked semantic metadata is an open problem. We have developed a semantic digital library oreChem ChemxSeer that models chemistry papers with semantic metadata. It stores and indexes extracted metadata from a chemistry paper repository Chemx Seer using "compound objects". We use the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) (http: www.openarchives.org ore standard to define a compound object that aggregates metadata fields related to a digital object. Aggregated metadata can be managed and retrieved easily as one unit resulting in improved ease-of-use and has the potential to improve the semantic interpretation of shared data. We show how metadata can be extracted from documents and aggregated using OAI-ORE. ORE objects are created on demand; thus, we are able to search for a set of linked metadata with one query. We were also able to model new types of metadata easily. For example, chemists are especially interested in finding information related to experiments in documents. We show how paragraphs containing experiment information in chemistry papers can be extracted and tagged based on a chemistry ontology with 470 classes, and then represented in ORE along with other document-related metadata. Our algorithm uses a classifier with features that are words that are typically only used to describe experiments, such as "apparatus", "prepare", etc. Using a dataset comprised of documents from the Royal Society of Chemistry digital library, we show that the our proposed methodperforms well in extracting experiment-related paragraphs from chemistry documents. Model-based Systems Engineering requires an intuitive semantically strong data model to enable precise data specification and provide the foundation for fruitful data analyses during data evolution. This paper presents an approach to use the Web Ontology Language (OWL) for specifying a Conceptual Data Model (CDM) being transformed into a format understandable by the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) to profit from powerful data handling and knowledge management functions during runtime. Coalescing OWL with EMF brings up the strength of both approaches leading to considerably better data models with less failure potential and reveal notably more analysis potential by using a common data model specification. This approach also enables the direct application of reasoning functionality for automatic inference of several pieces of knowledge and automatic checks as illustrated by examples from aerospace industry. The volume of biomedical literature has experienced explosive growth in recent years. This is reflected in the corresponding increase in the size of MEDLINE^(R), the largest bibliographic database of biomedical citations. Indexers at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) need efficient tools to help them accommodate the ensuing workload. After reviewing issues in the automatic assignment of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH^(R) terms) to biomedical text, we focus more specifically on the new subheading attachment feature for NLM's Medical Text Indexer (MTI). Natural Language Processing, statistical, and machine learning methods of producing automatic MeSH main heading subheading pair recommendations were assessed independently and combined. The best combination achieves 48 precision and 30 recall. After validation by NLM indexers, a suitable combination of the methods presented in this paper was integrated into MTI as a subheading attachment feature producing MeSH indexing recommendations compliant with current state-of-the-art indexing practice.