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Manufacturing interoperability

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As manufacturing and commerce become ever more global, companies are dependent increasingly upon the efficient and effective sharing of information with their partners, wherever they may be. Leading manufacturers perform this sharing with computers, which must therefore have the required software to encode and decode the associated electronic transmissions. Because no single company can dictate that all its partners use the same software, standards for how the information is represented become critical for error-free transmission and translation. The terms interoperability and integration are frequently used to refer to this error-free transmission and translation. This paper summarizes two projects underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the areas of interoperability testing and integration automation. These projects lay the foundation for at tomorrow’s standards, which we believe will rely heavily upon the use of formal logic representations, commonly called ontologies.

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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, MS 8260, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-8260, USA

    S. R. Ray & A. T. Jones

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Received February 2005: /Accepted: January 2006

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Ray, S.R., Jones, A.T. Manufacturing interoperability. J Intell Manuf 17, 681–688 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-006-0037-x

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