Progress on IOF's process and production planning reference ontology

Modern manufacturing enterprises are characterized by applications of information and automation at all levels in product life cycle (design, manufacturing, usage, recycling). Seamless flow of the data between various stake holders in such supply chain is expected to deliver concepts such as Industry 4.0 and IIoT. However, in order to achieve such semantic integration it is necessary to capture and share knowledge from various product development stages. This paper reports on efforts to develop a reference ontology for Process and Production Planning (PPS) and current progress of the corresponding working group within Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF). The development process is described together with the current draft of the PPS ontology. Discussion at the end also addresses remaining challenges.