Service-oriented design part information semantic modeling and applications

Networked manufacturing enterprises need a wider support from external manufacturing resources. This paper proposes a promising service to use web-based extended part resources for product development. The system architecture and enabling techniques are presented. Manufacturing part resources on the web are organized with semantic web technologies. These resources are further utilized through web-based resource repositories such as part libraries. The major modules of web-based part services are encapsulated with web services. Some preliminary results indicate the feasibility and scalability of web-based manufacturing resource services for networked manufacturing.