Toward Manufacturing Ontologies for Resources Management in the Aerospace Industry

Manufacturing ontologies in the aerospace industry have been an active research topic during the last decade, as a mean for tool agnostic modeling and simulations activities supporting the product development process. This work reviews Models for Manufacturing (MfM) methodology, proposed by the authors to support ontologies generation in this field, as well as representative examples of its application. In addition, it proposes a preliminary ontology to support an activity of the development process in conceptual phase, in charge of generating a “Build Process” and “As-Planned” product structure. Special attention is made to the resource objects that take part of this process.