Towards Ontologizing a Digital Twin Framework for Manufacturing

Published

September 21, 2023

Author(s)

Milos Drobnjakovic, Guodong Shao, Ana Nikolov, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan

Abstract

This paper presents a timely opportunity to ontologize a digital twin frame-work for manufacturing using recently published international standards and proposes a collaborative research effort to accomplish this task. The ISO/IEC 21838 series of standards were released recently to address top-level ontolo-gies, which have been used by industrial consortia to release mid-level on-tologies, such as the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Core. Around the same time, ISO 23247 series of standards were released to standardize a digi-tal twin framework for manufacturing. Now is an opportune time to apply the top-level and mid-level ontologies to create a domain-level ontology for a digital twin framework for manufacturing. This can then be used to create application-level ontologies, such as the one for biomanufacturing. This pa-per calls for a collaborative effort, similar to those employed in the creation of the ontology and digital twin standards, to reach the goals of the proposed research.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the APMS 2023 IFIP International Conference; Advances in Production Management Systems
"Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service and Logistics Futures"

Conference Dates

September 17-20, 2023

Conference Location

Trondheim, NO

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

ontology, digital twin, framework, standards, manufacturing, biomanufacturing

Citation

Drobnjakovic, M. , Shao, G. , Nikolov, A. , Kulvatunyou, B. , Frechette, S. and Srinivasan, V. (2023), Towards Ontologizing a Digital Twin Framework for Manufacturing, Proceedings of the APMS 2023 IFIP International Conference; Advances in Production Management Systems "Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service and Logistics Futures", Trondheim, NO, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936637 (Accessed October 16, 2025)