Using PLIB ontology for knowledge sharing and reuse in CPC

In CPC (Collaborative Product Commerce) environment, collaborators in product life cycle need to share the engineering resource and knowledge to facilitate the product development process. In several engineering fields, the products are mainly designed from pre-exiting components. In such fields, an important part of the engineering knowredge is the component knowledge. This paper explained why the PLIB ontology can be used in knowledge sharing and raised a PLIB ontology based knowledge sharing framework. A RMI process to realize knowledge sharing is introduced in detail. To realize comprehensive and explicit description of component knowledge, the notion of extended PLIB ontology is proposed Lastly, the two level knowledge reuse method and algorithm are discussed.