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+ About IOF Development
+ This ontology defines the scope of development maturity level IOF ontologies.
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+ Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) Ontology - Development
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+ A basis ontology for enhancing engineering of Product Service Systems (PSS) in manufacturing, by modelling all the aspects that affect, or could affect a PSS.
+ PSS working group
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+ Product Service System Ontology
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+- Magnitude/Quantity (i.e., how many or how much, for bulk materials)
+- Source, if the item is to be purchased from a supplier
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+ bill of materials item
+ The intent of this class is to provide a representation of the entries/item that comprise of make up a Bill of Materials.
+ An entry in, or description of an entry (i.e. an item), in a Bill of Materials (e.g., a line item).
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+ An entry in, or description of an entry (i.e. an item), in a Bill of Materials (e.g., a line item).
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+ The user of this ontology may use the current sub-classes now defined in the PSS ontology or define new ones in their application ontology (following the product lifecycle or production lifecycle, etc.) as needed according to how he/she is structuring their bill of materials: for instance if it's a Single-level bill of materials or a multi-level bill of materials
+ the bill of materials items can it itself refer to a bill of materials
+ a set of constituents of a bill of materials item
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+ a plan specification to fulfill objectives of a business organisation
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+ business resource role is a role that inheres in an independent continuant where that continuant bears a disposition that, if realized, is realized in a business enterprise process
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+ commercial service component
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+ a process definition which is part of a commercial service specification. It can be itself a service, but for the offered service within the scope of PSS, its existence only has a meaning as part of the commercial service
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+ role that is borne by a material entity, when that entity is intended to be consumed/transformed in a planned process. The quantities of resources is reduced after use
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+ product data generated from embedded data-source components (e.g. sensors)
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+ a PSS product component that refers to product-embedded information devices / parts (e.g. sensors), which allows for (additional) services to be offered for the product
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+ BOM from the design perspective
+ a bill of materials reflecting the product as designed by engineering
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+ PSS Information that represents any opinion on PSS, product or service (e.g. comments on social media, opinion expression in online questionnaires, etc.), coming from any agent or group of agents (e.g. Customer, Business Organisation)
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+ a PSS Product Component which is software, i.e. control software of a machine that exists only in combination with specific hardware product
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+ material artifact that is an Infrastructure that refers to the physical networks (e.g. buildings or machines) necessary for the design, development, delivery and operation of products and/or services
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+ object describing the facilities (physical e.g. buildings or machines), and organisational (e.g. computer networks or software applications) used to assist in development and delivering of a products and/or services
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+ product service system key performance indicator
+ Various types of KPIs can be defined: manufacturing KPI, environmental KPI etc.
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+ a PSS indicator referring to (a set of) measurement(s) that evaluates the performance (or success) of a PSS (concept), and is business relevant
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+ a set of processes that a product, a service or a product service system uses for its activities from the idea conceptualisation to its end-of-life
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+ a (set of) process definition(s) which includes different activities in the life of PSS, product, service etc. from the idea conceptualisation to its end-of life (beginning-of -life, middle-of-life, end-of-life)
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+ BOM from the production perspective
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+ business organization that buys and uses the products, services or PSS. It is the (group/company) customer of the PSS, using the PSS for their own business.
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+ PSS Information Discovery: searching for PSS Information (e.g., feedback) to support developing of a new Service or PSS.
+ UC Traceability: Reconstructing the history of previous services developments and uses and finding information used and provided (e.g. feedback, origin, time etc.)
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+ information content entity created by processing (convert or organise or infer) objective facts or observations about PSS related entities (development, deployment and use of PSS) in order to satisfy some need of at least one agent or group of agents
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+ information content entity which describes the understanding of PSS entities (PSS information, PSS data, product, commercial services…) and can be applied to a current PSS Process
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+ requirement specification that depicts the aspects which are necessary for the design, development or offer of PSS and is defined by an agent or group of agents
+ requirement specification that prescribes a product service system
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+ information content entity that refers to the digitalised information coming as input from the product or the service, specifically for the scope of PSS
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+ PSS provider organization
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+ to engage the customer with services; or to increase the sales of a product
+ typical examples of PSS with a different type feature are e.g. the product- oriented PSS, the result-oriented PSS and the use-oriented PSS.
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+ PSS quality that refers to quality that define the subgroup where a PSS belongs to, and describe the specific focus (orientation or aim) of a PSS
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+ process definition
+ The Process Definition can be the manufacturing process where the equipment is manufactured, or the process where the equipment is used, or the development process where products, services or PSS are being developed etc.
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+ In the industrial context they can be also understood as normative prescriptions, defined by a blueprint/recipe
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+ a lifecycle that includes only the product specific processes, in the scope of PSS. It refers to the Product Lifecycle Model in conjunction with time.
+ a set of processes that a product uses for its activities from the idea conceptualisation to its end-of-life
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+ PSS role
+ role that borne by set of at least an entity that is the specified output of a product production process and at least an entity that is the specified output of a service development process, and may include material entity that is used in PSS processes and actors that are involved in PSS processes. This set is intended to satisfy a need of the market, to be competitive, and jointly fulfil customer’s needs.
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+ PSS is a system which includes at least one material product and at least one commercial service, related to this product, and may include agents or groups of agents and infrastructure and which bears a PSS Role.
+ PSS is a system which includes at least one product and at least one service, related to this product, and which bears PSS Role.
+PSS role is a role that borne by set of at least an entity that is the specified output of a product production process and at least an entity that is the specified output of a service development process
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+ 3. Mont, Oksana K. "Clarifying the concept of product–service system." Journal of cleaner production 10.3 (2002): 237-245.
+ system that aims to satisfy a need of the market (e.g. to be sold in order to provide profit and support customers by covering their needs), to be competitive, and jointly fulfil customer’s needs [3]. It must include material products and commercial service specification, and may include agents or group of agents and infrastructure (software or hardware)
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+ descriptive information content entity, which are objective facts or observations about PSS related entities (in development, deployment and use of PSS)
+ we do not need to know to which entity it is but this is related to some entity in the design, development or use of a PSS
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+ a PSS Condition which describes the situation under which the PSS is being developed (e.g. cultural characteristics of the development teams, corporate orientation preferences, etc.)
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+ a lifecycle that includes the PSS processes from the idea conceptualisation to its end-of-life, referring to the PSS Lifecycle Model in conjunction with time
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+ is a PSS Resource only a material resource or can it have also immaterial parts?
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+ PSS Resource is a mean (source) that can be used for the design, development, offer and delivery of a PSS
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+ set of product service systems that share some qualities and describe the specific focus (orientation or aim) of a PSS
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+ Open is “bear certain needs” and “satisfying some needs”
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+ role held by an person or business organisation having the capability of realizing the disposition of a person or group of persons on whose behalf the agent acts, has interest in, and if realized is satisfying some of the needs that the person or group of persons bear
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+# Product Service System Ontology (PSS Ontology)
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+Version 2023-04-28
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+*The IOF is an international standards group that operates under the auspices of the Open Applications Group.*
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+# Introduction
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+The PSS Ontology aims to support the software platforms being developed to support the product service systems' from design to EOL
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+ProductServiceSystem.rdf imports IOF Core directly. BFO-2020.owl and IOF-AnnotationVocabulary.rdf are imported through IOF Core.
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