Vertical integration in the I4.0 scope

Abstract

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is an industry trend towards automation and the use of data in production technologies and processes. The I4.0 concept promotes the convergence of the physical and virtual world, enabling the connection and interoperability between the various physical and virtual elements. Integration and interoperability of the systems involved and the technologies that support them have become one of the 5 challenges that remain to be solved in the implementation of I4.0. Use of ontologies is the right solution to address semantic interoperability since they express the meaning of the concepts and relationships of the domain in a clear and explicit way. The general objective of the research is the definition and implementation of an infrastructure that supports the semantic integration of manufacturing organization systems in the context of I4.0. For this purpose, it is necessary to define ontologies that allow the representation of the information systems domain involved in the product life cycle.