Maintenance Working Group

IOF Maintenance Working Group

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Overview and Purpose

The Maintenance WG has developed a minimal reference ontology for maintenance concepts commonly used in maintenance application ontologies. This bottom-up approach was motivated by use cases in asset reliability, maintenance, failure and maintenance management. The Maintenance reference ontology adheres to IOF Core and BFO.

Meeting Cadence

  • The IOF Working Group meets every two weeks in the evening Australian Western Standard Time.

Leadership

Communications

Key Resources

  • Maintenance Reference ontology (GitHub)
  • Includes a detailed readme file, which contains an image (see below) showing all the classes and object properties with their alignment with IOF Core and BFO.
  • The ontology is available as maintenance.rdf. This file includes a full set of annotations for each term.

maintenance ontology diagram
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Related Resources

Examples of prior work by this group (or experts participating in this group) relating to maintenance ontologies in reverse chronological order.

  • Woods C, Selway M, Bikaun T, Stumptner M, Hodkiewicz M., 2022. An ontology for maintenance activities and its application to data quality. In review for Semantic Web Journal
  • Woods, C., Selway, M., Hodkiewicz, M., Ameri, F., Stumptner, M. and Sobel, W., 2021. On the Notion of Maintenance State for Industrial Assets. FOMI 2021: 11th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry, held at JOWO 2021: Episode VII The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, September 11–18, 2021, Bolzano, Italy. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2969/paper22-FOMI.pdf
  • Hodkiewicz, M., Klüwer, J.W., Woods, C., Smoker, T. and Low, E., 2021. An ontology for reasoning over engineering textual data stored in FMEA spreadsheet tables. Computers in Industry, 131. An ontology for reasoning over engineering textual data stored in FMEA spreadsheet tables. Note this uses ISO 15926-14 as the reference ontology but we have a BFO aligned version as well in the Maintenance WG private GIT.
  • Hodkiewicz, M., Low, E., Woods, C. and Ameri, F, 2020. Towards a Reference Ontology for Maintenance Work Management. Proceedings of the Workshops of I-ESA 2020, 17-11-20, Tarbes, France. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2900/WS5Paper2.pdf
  • Karray, M.H., Ameri, F., Hodkiewicz, M. and Louge, T., 2019. ROMAIN: Towards a BFO compliant reference ontology for industrial maintenance. Applied Ontology, 14(2), pp.155-177. ROMAIN: Towards a BFO compliant reference ontology for industrial maintenance – IOS Press
  • Lupp, D.P., Hodkiewicz, M. and Skjæveland, M.G., 2020. Template libraries for industrial asset maintenance: A methodology for scalable and maintainable ontologies. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 2757, pp. 49-64). Technical University of Aachen. Template Libraries for Industrial Asset Maintenance: A Methodology for Scalable and Maintainable Ontologies

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