This server hosts two services relating to production resource descriptions. The first is a set of ontologies used for capability modelling and capability matchmaking, and the second is production resource descriptions. These models are used to describe the capabilities and other characteristics of production resources, information which can be utilised later by different engineering and control applications for production system design, reconfiguration and deployment. These are also providing backbone for information exchange about the production resources.
This service defines a few ontologies:
- Process taxonomy model
- Generic hierarchical classification of production processes.
- Capability model
- Model for defining capabilities, combined capabilities and their parameters
- Imports Process taxonomy model
- Resource model
- Model for defining resources and assigning them capabilities
- Imports Capability model
- Product model
- Model for defining product requirements
- Imports Process taxonomy model
These ontologies and associated models are explained more in ReCaM Deliverable 3.1.
Resource Description Web Service
The Resource Description Web Service is aimed to distribute and share the production resource descriptions. These are digital representations of the production resources. With this service some manipulations can be made like: creating documentation or some sort of customised templates, searching suitable resources, and of course, downloading the resource description files.
There are two timely divided versions of Resource Description WS. The latest is Resource Description Web Service, which has been in active development since the beginning of 2016.
The former is Emplacement WS (2006-2015), which contains former data models and resources modelled with these formats. This web service is not updated anymore and should not be used.