Abstract
Companies are under great pressure to innovate and industrialize new products. In addition, the customization and complexity of good and services as well as the competitive environment require the optimization of new product development process (NPD), and choice and manufacturing process configuration.
PLM or Product Lifecycle Management is the tool that allows creating, managing, sharing and capitalizing all the information related to the product throughout its lifecycle to gain collective efficiency. Nevertheless, the choice of the manufacturing process configuration always requires a lot of effort, time and expertise. The Plug & Produce concept means that the production process is quickly configured, and put into service without the need for excessive manual effort, and that is what we want to have when we industrialize a new product. Moreover, the reconfiguration of a production system following the NPD process is a difficult function to ensure, it is considered among the challenges to be taken into account in the design of a production system.
In this work, we propose an approach bottom-up, based on ontology and the Semantic Web, to automate the process of industrialization of a new product. To illustrate this approach, a case study of a PLM module of the flexible manufacturing and assembly cell is presented.
