Information Models for Sustainable Manufacturing

The objectives are to: (1) provide formal representations of information to support the full range of the product lifecycle beyond the representation of form (geometry and material), (2) complete the standardization of the OMG reference model for managing product lifecycle information and (3) define formal models to supply the representation needs for sustainable manufacturing, including reuse, disassembly and remanufacturing.

TThe principal objectives of the project are to: (1) provide formal representations of information to support the full range of the product lifecycle beyond the representation of form (geometry and material), (2) complete the standardization of the OMG reference model for managing product lifecycle information and (3) define formal models to supply the representation needs for sustainable manufacturing, including reuse, recycle (disassembly) and remanufacturing. The current lack of formal models (syntactically and semantically consistent representations) of product life cycle information makes it difficult to standardize and validate support systems for product life cycle management. 

To meet the project’s objectives, the following activities will be undertaken:

• Extend the formal representation developed to date by synthesizing prior work on product, assembly and systems models, leading to comprehensive and rigorous models that facilitate automated reasoning, maintenance of consistency, semantic interoperability, and concurrent product development.
• Develop a standardized terminology of terms and concepts for products and processes (ontology), with an emphasis on sustainability.
• Analyze the standards requirements for sustainable manufacturing, including reuse, recycle (disassembly), remanufacturing identified in other projects.
• Develop smart disassembly techniques and supporting standards.
• Create lifecycle information models for interoperability among systems and tools that support sustainable manufacturing.
• Extend the Core Product Model (CPM) to support information related to sustainability issues in simulation.
• Integrate product and process models by developing design process models using PSL, SysML and related methodologies.