Designing batch-manufacturing enterprises using ontologies

This article presents an ontological approach to designing batch manufacturing enterprises based on formal ontologies. Belarusian enterprise JSC «Savushkin product» is used as an example. In particular, this article covers formalization of standards that form the basis for enterprise operation, with ISA-88 used as an example. We propose to treat the ISA-88 standard as an ontology of a batch manufacturing subject domain, represented in the form of the natural language text. Formalization of a standard then boils down to mapping structure and contents of the standard to a hierarchy of subject domains and respective ontologies. Formal representation of a standard forms the basis for corporate intelligent system and simplifies automation of a wide range of tasks, such as providing informational service for employees, making enterprise adherent to standards and formal standard adherence evaluation. Fundamental new result presented in this article is comprised of using formal representation of the industry standard, implemented using graphodynamical model of knowledge representation and processing as a basis for creating an enterprise-wide intelligent system.