Boonserm Kulvatunyou

• National Institute of Standards and Technology

Global supply chain digitalization must support diverse and incompatible formats, protocols, and structures of the Data Exchange Standards (DESes). The complexity of the global supply chain network has led to the need for increased supply chain flexibility, agility, and resilience. This paper reviews different approaches to resolving the DES hetero...

Biomanufacturing has gained significant importance in recent years due to its role in developing new medications, handling pandemics, and increasing the well-being of human populations. The nature of biochemical processes requires complex planning and control, with many controlled and non-controllable variables that impact the quality of bioproduct...

Standards-based methods for data exchange are key for Business-to-Business (B2B) integration. However, in the case of small businesses, there are significant barriers to utilizing these methods. One of the reasons is that the standards are large, making their use very difficult. The most recent attempt to resolve this issue was the first OAGIS Expr...

ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease the development of ontologies in specific domains and applications. This paper traces the mot...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the cold chain for biopharmaceutical products to the spotlight. To preserve their structure and function, biopharmaceuticals such as cells, proteins and enzymes, RNA molecules, and RNA-based drugs (e.g., mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines) require low temperatures for proper handling, storage, and transport. Due to the s...

Modern business, engineering, and manufacturing are supported by many software tools. Those tools not only help create new products for customers but also enable delivering them in increasingly shorter time periods. To achieve both, the ability to transfer, exchange, integrate, and analyze digital data among supply chain participants with diverse s...

An ontological perspective to addressing sustainability issues in biomanufacturing on the journey to the circular economy is represented in this paper. Even though sustainability goes beyond the environmental dimension from the triple bottom line framework (including environmental, economic, and social dimensions), given the importance of the envir...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to attention several supply chain challenges in the globalized biopharmaceutical industry. Demand fluctuations and the ability to effectively repurpose manufacturing facilities, and to dynamically adapt scheduling and capacity to respond to those fluctuations are among the important challenges. The biopharmaceutica...

This paper presents a timely opportunity for manufacturing researchers to ontologize a digital twin framework for manufacturing by using recently published international standards. An ISO/IEC 21838 series of standards was released recently to address ‘top-level’ ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to release standards...

Continuous biopharmaceutical manufacturing is currently a field of intense research due to its potential to make the entire production process more optimal for the modern, ever‐evolving biopharmaceutical market. Compared to traditional batch manufacturing, continuous bioprocessing is more efficient, adjustable, and sustainable and has reduced capit...

Although business context has been introduced as an important concept for message-standards usage and maintenance, its usability depends on the technique used to represent contextual knowledge. This paper investigates a logic-based business-context-modeling technique, which is an alternative technique that can overcome some of the issues identified...

Traditional attack detection approaches utilize predefined databases of known signatures about already-seen tools and malicious activities observed in past cyber-attacks to detect future attacks. More sophisticated approaches apply machine learning to detect abnormal behavior. Nevertheless, a growing number of successful attacks and the increasing...

The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) was formed to create a suite of interoperable ontologies. Ontologies that would serve as a foundation for data and information interoperability in all areas of manufacturing. To ensure that each ontology is developed in a structured and mutually coherent manner, the IOF has committed to the tiered architectur...

Systems integration processes need to become more efficient and effective in order to allow enterprises to be nimbler and more responsive in today's dynamic markets. Systems integration typically depends on data exchange standards (DESes) and the associated DES usage specification that provides precise standard implementation requirements. However,...

Large amounts of data are generated throughout the entire, AM, part-development lifecycle. Data are generated by various functions within process monitoring, material characterization, equipment status, and part qualification. Hence, data integration and management are critical in streamlining, accelerating, certifying, and deploying these function...

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 brought on many challenges. Sustaining manufacturing production is one of them. Some market segments may experience reductions in demands, while other market segments may experience explosions in demand. Companies have to manage these changing needs and supply uncertainties while keeping employees safe and remaining...

It is generally observed in inter-organizational communication that present-day data exchange standards are too costly, large, slow to respond to industry demands, and complex to develop and use. These problems in data exchange are felt keenly by the manufacturing industry and its vast supply chains. In addressing these challenges, a successful att...

It is generally observed in inter-organizational communication that present-day data exchange standards are too costly, large, slow to respond to industry demands, and complex to develop and use. These problems in data exchange are felt keenly by the manufacturing industry and its vast supply chains. In addressing these challenges, a successful att...

Since its inception in 1978, the IFIP Working Group (WG) 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) has played an active role in the fields of production and production management. The Working Group has focused on the conception, development, strategies, frameworks, architectures, processes, methods, and tools needed for the advancemen...

Cyber threat information sharing is an imperative process towards achieving collaborative security, but it poses several challenges. One crucial challenge is the plethora of shared threat information. Therefore, there is a need to advance filtering of such information. While the state-of-the-art in filtering relies primarily on keyword- and domain-...

Providing the business context has a potential to become a powerful mechanism for the interoperable usage and efficient maintenance of message standards. In the literature, there are multiple techniques for its representation and application. Industry use cases have identified multiple issues that come with currently used techniques, which can repr...

Industry 4.0 adoption demands integrability, interoperability, composability, and security. Currently, integrability, interoperability and composability are addressed by next-generation approaches for enterprise systems integration such as model-based standards, ontology, business process model life cycle management and the context of business proc...

Although business context has been introduced as an important concept for message-standards usage and maintenance, its usability depends on the technique used to represent contextual knowledge. This paper investigates a logic-based business context modeling technique, which is an alternative technique that can overcome some of the issues identified...

Many companies have cited lack of cyber-security as the main barrier to Industrie 4.0 or digitalization. Security functions include protection, detection, response and investigation. Cyber-attack investigation is important as it can support the mitigation of damages and maturing future prevention approaches. Nowadays, the investigation of cyber-att...

The number of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, and cloud service implementations are growing rapidly. In the resulting, emerging, cross-industry, cooperative environments, a common understanding of message standards will be necessary to enable better semantic interoperability among both traditional enterprise applications and business-to-business...

While necessary for a successful integration of enterprise services and business-to-business (B2B) applications, message standards can be difficult to use. This paper proposes an innovative, business-context approach and a software tool that we believe can overcome those difficulties. To accomplish both, the paper shows how the business-context app...

Research has shown that design changes cost more in later stages of product development. Therefore, companies adopt Design-for-X methods to optimize product designs for many aspects in the early design stage. Despite such efforts, products often encounter several design changes during the commission of the production, a principal reason being failu...

Several supply-chain ontologies have been introduced in the past decade with the promise of enabling supply chain interoperability. However, the existing supply-chain ontologies have several gaps with respect to completeness, logical consistency, domain accuracy, and the development approach. In this work, we propose a new, supply-chain, reference...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been identified as a key to enabling the emerging manufacturing paradigms such as smart manufacturing, Industrie 4.0, and cloud manufacturing where things (i.e., various kinds of devices and software systems) from heterogeneous sources have to be dynamically connected. Data exchange standards are playing an i...

The interoperability R&D community should take on the challenge of enabling new message standards lifecycle management (LCM) capabilities needed for rapid integration and reconfiguration of manufacturing systems. A key to the vision of smart manufacturing systems is that manufacturing services may be efficiently integrated, configured and reconfigu...

The current industrial revolution is said to be driven by the digitization that exploits connected information across all aspects of manufacturing. Standards have been recognized as an important enabler. Ontology-based information standard may provide benefits not offered by current information standards. Although there have been ontologies develop...

The manufacturing industry is transitioning towards smart manufacturing systems (SMS). Small and medium size manufacturers (SMMs) are particularly behind in this transition, plagued by lack of knowledge and resources. Several smart manufacturing capability assessment and maturity models exist to guide the transition. However, support for choosing t...

Recently, the concept of smart manufacturing has emerged as a new paradigm, with which manufacturers can enhance their competitiveness in the market. Smart manufacturing paradigm can be viewed as the convergence of Information & Communication Technologies with human capabilities and manufacturing technologies. The new paradigm is expected to bring...

One of the most exciting new capabilities in Smart Manufacturing (SM) and Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) is the provisioning of manufacturing services as unbundled "apps or services", which could be significantly more flexible and less expensive to use than the current generation of monolithic manufacturing applications. However, bundling...

Various techniques are used to diagnose problems throughout all levels of the organization within the manufacturing industry. Often times, this root cause analysis is ad-hoc with no standard representation for artifacts or terminology (i.e., no standard representation for terms used in techniques such as fishbone diagrams, 5 why’s, etc.). Once a pr...

To facilitate the vision of service-oriented manufacturing, Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) will need to support business process model life-cycle management. In this paper, we propose the Business Process Cataloging and Classification System (BPCCS) to support that role. BPCCS can facilitate adaptation of business process models. We validate life-cycle...

This report summarizes the results from the OAGi/NIST workshop Drilling down on Smart Manufacturing -- Enabling Composable Apps, which was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology campus in Gaithersburg, MD, on April 18-19, 2016. The purpose of the workshop was to identify and discuss challenges in advancing the vision of composab...

Smart manufacturing systems (SMSs) are envisioned to contain highly automated and IT-driven production systems. To address the complexity that arises in such systems, a standard and holistic model for describing its activities and their interrelationships is needed. This paper introduces a factory design and improvement (FDI) activity model and ill...

Smart manufacturing is defined by high degrees of automation. Automation, in turn, is defined by clearly defined processes. The use of standards in this environment is not just commonplace, but essential to creating repeatable processes and reliable systems. As with the rest of society, manufacturing systems are becoming more tightly connected thro...

Manufacturing software services provisioned as unbundled “apps” could be significantly more flexible and less expensive to use than the current monolithic manufacturing applications. However, integrating such heterogeneous apps is not a trivial job. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has initiated a research and development progr...

Advances in cloud-enabled service-oriented architectures (SOA) have caused a resurgence of industry interest in business process catalog as a vehicle for establishing shared references for collaborative business processes. With this paper, we start to explore the state of art and practice in business process catalog and classification scheme (BPCCS...

Engineering information systems play an important role in the current era of digitization of manufacturing, which is a key component to enable smart manufacturing. Traditionally, these engineering information systems spanned the lifecycle of a product by providing interoperability of software subsystems through a combination of open and proprietary...

Developed countries and global manufacturing enterprises are leading the way for developing smart manufacturing systems (SMS) to improve competitiveness and possibly make technological breakthroughs. SMS is based upon the integration of information and communication technology with manufacturing technology; and all the heterogeneous technologies mu...

Smart manufacturing, today, is the ability to continuously maintain and improve performance, with intensive use of information, in response to the changing environments. Technologies for creating smart manufacturing systems or factories are becoming increasingly abundant. Consequently, manufacturers, large and small, need to correctly select and pr...

As cloud computing is increasingly adopted, the trend is to offer software functions as modular services and compose them into larger, more meaningful ones. The trend is attractive to analytical problems in the manufacturing system design and performance improvement domain because (1) finding a global optimization for the system is a complex proble...

As the volume of online manufacturing information grows steadily, the need for developing dedicated computational tools for information organization and mining becomes more pronounced. This paper proposes a novel approach for facilitating search and organization of textual documents and also extraction of thematic patterns in manufacturing corpora...

Service-oriented manufacturing systems need to be supported by formal reference models for effective service description, discovery, and composition. A reference model should evolve continuously throughout its lifecycle to respond to changing re-quirements. The objective of this work is to propose a formal process for collaborative and community-ba...

Dynamic, networked service-oriented systems, like those found in manufacturing, logistics or transportation, require efficient communication of capabilities of their services to enable on-the-fly integrations as a result of changing requirements. Previously, in a case of a manufacturing services network, we have shown the manufacturing service capa...

Engineering information systems play an important role in the current era of digitization of manufacturing, which is also known as smart manufacturing. Traditionally, these engineering information systems spanned the lifecycle of a product by providing interoperability of software subsystems through a combination of open and proprietary exchange of...

Keynote delivered at the 2014 International Conference on Through-Life Engineering Services

This paper proposes an approach to integrate real-time analytics with continuous performance management. The proposed system exploits the increasing availability of industrial process and production performance data. This paper identifies components of such a system and the interface between components within the system. The components presented in...

Smart manufacturing system will be able to quickly adapt to new and changing requirements, implying that software and hardware components of the manufacturing system need to be easily recomposed. In addition, provision of software applications and components is trending toward distributed, heterogeneous, and cloud-based. However, engineers who need...

Presented at the 2014 APMS MSEE Workshop

The exchange of accurate, computer-interpretable information is critical in today’s dynamic supply chains in which manufacturers come and go as needed. This exchange begins when manufacturers, who hope to join the supply chain, provide the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) with information regarding their production capabilities. These capabili...

Ontological conceptualization refers to the process of creating an abstract view of the domain of interest through a set of interconnected concepts. In this paper, a thesaurus-based methodology is proposed for systematic ontological conceptualization in the manufacturing domain. The methodology has three main phases, namely, thesaurus development,...

A key factor deciding the capacity to increase the sustainability of final products is the energy efficiency. The energy embodied in a product is an aggregation of all of the energy embodied in the products' components and subsystems, expended through its manufacturing processes and logistical activities. Currently, accurate estimation of this ener...

A manufacturing service capability (MSC) model is essential for correct communication of MSC information between dynamic supply chain (DSC) partners. MSC information elicits service details such as locations, specialisations, capacities, certifications, and software and material processing capabilities. Presently, as in the case of web portal-enabl...

When an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), which makes a final product for the consumer marketplace by purchasing components from its suppliers, faces unexpected supply network failures and market events, models of suppliers‟ manufacturing service capabilities can provide information required for efficient recovery of these supply network. Mode...

Product lifecycle management is an important aspect of today’s industry, as it serves to facilitate information exchange and management between most, if not all, stages of a product’s existence. As exchanged product information is inevitably subjected to multiple transformations and derivations, information transparency between lifecycle stages can...

Manufacturing enterprises are becoming globally distributed production systems. Rigid supply chains are giving way to dynamic supply networks that are cost-efficient and can respond to change quickly. A key factor in the formation of dynamic supply networks is the communication of manufacturing capabilities-both production capabilities and informat...

A semantic-mediation architecture advances traditional approaches for standard-based business-to-business interoperability. The architecture formally models a business domain in a reference ontology and annotates domain message schemas to define public and proprietary reconciliation rule sets. Enterprises can use the rule sets to implement standard...

This paper presents a semantic-mediation architecture that enables standards-based interoperability between heterogeneous supply-chain applications. The architecture was implemented using a state-of-the-art semantic-mediation toolset for design-time and run-time integration tasks. The design-time tools supported a domain ontology definition, messag...

Ensuring consistency among data exchange specifications in XML is critical to seamless integration of various business-to-business (B2B) applications. To this end, a specification should be thoroughly verified in manifold perspectives such as grammar/syntax confor- mance, design compliance, and canonical semantics accordance. A single hand-woven te...

In enterprise integration, a data-exchange specification is an architectural artifact that evolves along with the business. Maintaining a coherent, data-exchange, semantic model is an important, yet nontrivial task. A coherent, semantic model of data — exchange specifications supports reuse, promotes interoperability, and, consequently, reduces int...

Integrating distributed manufacturing systems is a longstanding dream of industrial engineers. The advent of internet technologies has provided opportunities to fulfill this dream, and has presented new challenges to overcome. Since most current internet technologies (e.g. SOA, web service) originated in business applications, it is difficult to ap...

One of the most critical steps to integrating heterogeneous e-Business applications using different XML schemas is schema mapping, which is known to be costly and error-prone. Past research on schema mapping has not fully utilized semantic information in the XML schemas. In this paper, we propose a semantic similarity analysis approach to facilitat...

The pursuit of lower cost, shorter time-to-market, and better quality has led to a shift toward global production in today's competitive business environment. This shift however, forces manufacturing enterprises to have separate design houses and manufacturing facilities. In general, design houses are located in the same regions as customers to ena...

Today's competitive global market makes most enterprise endeavor to specialize their business areas, and co-operate with trading partners in supply chain by forms of collaboration, information and business process sharing. However, even the supply chain plan generated by co-operation often fails to be executed successfully, because it was generated...

In this paper we discuss the use cases for monitoring of Web services for compliance with policies and service level agreements. In particular, the quality of service associated with Web service interactions and its monitoring rely on the proper use by both parties of related Web service protocols. This monitoring is best served by an event-centric...

With its prevalence in enterprise applications integration, the service-oriented approach has been studied in various ways. The popularity, however, results in a number of different standards and implementations. The approach needs agreed-upon definitions and assumptions. To this end, the paper presents a multi-criteria service composition problem...

Measuring structural similarity between XML documents has become a key component in various applications, including XML data mining, schema matching, web service discovery, among others. The paper presents a novel structural similarity measure between XML documents using kernel methods. Results on preliminary simulations show that this outperforms...

Testing is a necessary step in systems integration. Testing in the context of interenterprise, business-to-business (B2B) integration is more difficult and expensive than intra-enterprise integration. Traditionally, the difficulty is alleviated by conducting the testing in two stages: conformance testing and then interoperability testing. In confor...

This paper addresses challenges associated with conformance and interoperability testing of today’s e-business technologies and proposes a new approach that improves on existing, test scripting languages and operation modes. A test model and scripting are described, namely, the Event-driven Test Scripting Language (eTSL). We contrasted this new app...

We propose a probabilistic framework to address uncertainty in ontology-based semantic integration and interopera- tion. This framework consists of three main components: 1) BayesOWL that translates an OWL ontology to a Bayes- ian network, 2) SLBN (Semantically Linked Bayesian Networks) that support reasoning across translated BNs, and 3) a Learner...

We are building a methodology and tool kit for encoding XML schema NDRS [Naming and Design Rules] in a computer-interpretable fashion, enabling automated rule enforcement and improving schema quality. Through our experience implementing rules from various NDR specifications, we discuss some issues and offer practical guidance to organizations grapp...

We describe an architecture to validate new tools in support of interoperability provisioning processes that take place within industrial communities. We start from a best-practices standards development process where an industry community develops interoperability specifications that are used by vendors to make their software applications complian...

We are building a methodology and tool kit for encoding XML schema Naming and Design Rules (NDRs) in a computer-interpretable fashion, enabling automated rule enforcement and improving schema quality. Through our experience implementing rules from various NDR specifications, we discuss some issues and offer practical guidance to organizations grapp...

As markets become unexpectedly turbulent with a shortened product life cycle and a power shift towards buyers, the need for methods to develop products, production facilities, and supporting software rapidly and cost-effectively is becoming urgent. The use of a loosely integrated virtual enterprise based framework holds the potential of surviving c...

Content-level conformance testing is a key to achieving interoper- able data exchange among applications deployed across collaborating, yet in- dependent enterprises. In this paper, we identify four types of content-level conformance tests to support interoperable data exchange: document verifica- tion tests, information mapping tests, transaction...

This paper presents a framework for the determination of an efficient level of simulation model fidelity for flexible manufacturing systems, which will achieve acceptable output accuracy with minimum resources and thereby reduce model building effort and computation time. To this end, we first formally define different levels of model fidelity usin...

Ideally, e-Business application interfaces would be built from highly reusable specifications of business document standards. Since many of these specifications are poorly understood, users often create new ones or customize existing ones every time a new integration problem arises. Consequently, even though there is a potential for reuse, the lack...

To cope with today’s fluctuating markets, a virtual enterprise (VE) concept can be employed to achieve the cooperation among independently operating enterprises. The success of VE depends on reliable interoperation among trading partners. This paper describes a framework based on semantic web of manufacturing and simulation services to enable busin...