Ontology Re-Engineering: A Case Study from the Automotive Industry

Authors

  • Nestor Rychtyckyj AAAI
  • Venkatesh Raman Ford Motor Company
  • Baskaran Sankaranarayanan Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • P. Sreenivasa Kuma Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Deepak Khemani Indian Institute of Technology Madras

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v38i1.2712

Abstract

For over twenty-five years Ford Motor Company has been utilizing an AI-based system to manage process planning for vehicle assembly at its assembly plants around the world. The scope of the AI system, known originally as the Direct Labor Management System and now as the Global Study Process Allocation System (GSPAS), has increased over the years to include additional functionality on Ergonomics and Powertrain Assembly (Engines and Transmission plants). The knowledge about Ford’s manufacturing processes is contained in an ontology originally developed using the KL-ONE representation language and methodology. To preserve the viability of the GSPAS ontology and to make it easily usable for other applications within Ford, we needed to re-engineer and convert the KL-ONE ontology into a semantic web OWL/RDF format. In this article, we will discuss the process by which we re-engineered the existing GSPAS KL-ONE ontology and deployed semantic web technology in our application.

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Published

2017-03-31

How to Cite

Rychtyckyj, N., Raman, V., Sankaranarayanan, B., Kuma, P. S., & Khemani, D. (2017). Ontology Re-Engineering: A Case Study from the Automotive Industry. AI Magazine, 38(1), 49-60. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v38i1.2712

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