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Globalization has become a major trend in today’s business environment, which has led to the explosion in the amount of information shared amongst business partners. It is critical to share information correctly, inexpensively, and effectively for accomplishing business goals using global information sharing architectures under increasing pressure of competitive markets. One of the major barriers to build such a global information sharing architecture is caused by the absence of universally accepted ontology needed to facilitate business partners to be seamlessly interoperable with one another within a global manufacturing world. In reality, due to heterogeneous enterprise environments in which business partners find themselves, multiple ontologies are defined and used. In this paper, we present a method for semantically mapping different business documents to a conforming document format, given inevitable existence of multiple ontolgoies. Forward reasoning rules are used to express the mapping, and they are applied to exchange messages between heterogeneous business partners. We demonstrate our semantic mapping approach by using a demonstrator that uses Web services for service components and the Jena package for a reasoning engine. A business scenario of the demonstrator consists of a part ordering transaction taking place between an original equipment manufacturer and its supplier. This approach can also be applied to other manufacturing operations such as parts scheduling, order sequencing, and inventory.
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Oh, SC., Yee, ST. Manufacturing interoperability using a semantic mediation. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 39, 199–210 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-007-1198-2
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