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About this paper

Melinda Hodkiewicz, Caitlin Woods, Matt Selway, Markus Stumptner

The `Iof-maint` project presents a publicly available, modular maintenance ontology developed through industry-academic collaboration to enhance semantic interoperability in industrial asset management. It provides a BFO-aligned framework with 20 classes and 2 relations, achieving a high FAIR score of 271, which facilitates data integration and supports advanced analytics in maintenance.

Key insights

  • Deriving a reference ontology from multiple validated industrial application ontologies ensures practical relevance and validity of the core maintenance concepts for real-world use cases.
  • Modularity and strict alignment with top-level ontologies like BFO are crucial for creating reusable components that enable broad semantic interoperability across diverse industrial domains.
  • Rigorous formalization in OWL 2 DL, including detailed axioms and logical consistency checks, is essential for supporting advanced reasoning and facilitating data-driven insights in maintenance.

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