Iof-maint – Modular maintenance ontology

In this paper we present a publicly-available maintenance ontology (Iof-maint). Iof-maint is a modular ontology aligned with the Industrial Ontology Foundry Core (IOF Core) and contains 20 classes and 2 relations. It provides a set of maintenance-specific terms used in a wide variety of practical data-driven use cases. Iof-maint supports OWL DL reasoning, is documented, and is actively maintained on GitHub. In this paper, we describe the evolution of the Iof-maint reference ontology based on the extraction of common concepts identified in a number of application ontologies working with industry maintenance work order, procedure and failure mode data.