Semantic interoperability for an integrated product development process: a systematic literature review. Issue 22 (17th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Szejka, Anderson Luis; Canciglieri, Osiris; Panetto, Hervé; Rocha Loures, Eduardo; Aubry, Alexis
• Is Part Of: International journal of production research. Volume 55:Issue 22(2017)
• Page Start: 6691
• Page End: 6709
• Publication Date: 2017-11-17
• Subjects: product development process -- product requirements -- multiple domains -- bibliography survey -- product design and manufacturing -- interoperability; Factory management -- Periodicals; 658.57
• DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2017.1346314
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-7543

Abstract

Abstract : Global competitiveness challenges manufacturing industry to rationalise different ways of bringing to the market new products in a short lead-time with competitive prices whilst ensuring higher quality levels and customisation. Industries need to effectively share heterogeneous information during Product Development Process (PDP) within and across their institutional boundaries to be competitive. However, problems with misinterpretation and mistakes have been identified during information exchange due to the semantic interoperability obstacles. Thus, this research proposes a systematic literature review to identify the main researches and the milestones reference works on semantic interoperability field. A rigorous methodology was conducted in different databases, covering the articles published in scientific journals from 2005 to 2015 as a preliminary study had indicated that the incidence of articles related to the subject was more frequent from the second half of the 2000s. The research structure consisted of four steps: Survey – searching, analysis and selection of recent researches; Categorisation – categorisation of the selected papers; References citation frequency analysis – the selected papers were analysed and the main researches and milestones references were identified; and Main researches critical analysis – the main researches were analysed for their contributions and limitations, their contributions and limitations, resulting in 14 selected scientific articles and 8 identified milestones references. It is evident that this field has interesting perspectives on future research opportunities on semantic interoperability of information issues across PDP, contributing to the new concepts of future factories.