An Ontological View of the RAMI4.0 Asset Administration Shell

Andreas W. Müller, Irlán Grangel-González, Christoph Lange

2020

Abstract

Information interoperability is of paramount importance to Industry 4.0 (I4.0). To this end, the Reference Architecture Model for I4.0 (RAMI4.0) defines the Asset Administration Shell (AS) concept as a core element for interoperable descriptions of assets. Assets, such as Cyber-Physical Systems, are building blocks that need to be interchangeable between various industrial systems but are heterogeneously modeled. In order to achieve the required interoperability between these systems, semantics is key. Typically, two types of systems occur in I4.0 scenarios: legacy systems not considering explicit semantics, and a new generation of ontology-based systems. However, existing approaches for modeling the AS do not explicitly address this situation of interoperability between systems of such different types. In this article, we develop an ontological view of the AS concept to bridge the gap between these types of systems. This results in an ontology that is intended to be likewise realizable with both ontology-based and non-ontology-based systems. We present this ontology together with a suggested two-phase engineering process for its application.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Müller A., Grangel-González I. and Lange C. (2020). An Ontological View of the RAMI4.0 Asset Administration Shell. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD; ISBN 978-989-758-474-9, SciTePress, pages 165-172. DOI: 10.5220/0010111101650172

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod20,
author={Andreas W. Müller and Irlán Grangel-González and Christoph Lange},
title={An Ontological View of the RAMI4.0 Asset Administration Shell},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD},
year={2020},
pages={165-172},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010111101650172},
isbn={978-989-758-474-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD
TI - An Ontological View of the RAMI4.0 Asset Administration Shell
SN - 978-989-758-474-9
AU - Müller A.
AU - Grangel-González I.
AU - Lange C.
PY - 2020
SP - 165
EP - 172
DO - 10.5220/0010111101650172
PB - SciTePress