2020 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages JAMDSM0022
The aim of this research is to establish clear concepts for working with standards (e.g. ISO) in the context of connected factory. When machines or other output devices need to communicate with each other, e.g., to autonomously perform processes in manufacturing processes, all the necessary information must be accessible to them. Today, however, the required information is documented in standards that are only available in PDF or even paper form. Thus, a prerequisite for using information from standards is that these are automatically provided in output devices. A deeper look leads to three levels of maturity for using standard information in output devices: machine-readable, machine-actionable and machine-interpretable. Starting from a clear definition of these terms an approach is developed to implement machine-actionable standards. It is assumed that not all standards are suitable for machine-actionability and therefore the first step is to classify the standards in order to identify the appropriate standards. The second step describes how information from standards can be modelled to be available in a machine-actionable form. The last step clarifies how the machine-actionable content must be provided afterwards so that they can be used in all output devices with less effort. This research work closes with the validation of the developed approach.
