Ontology-Based Matchmaking for Manufacturing-as-a-Service

A promising approach to advance the resilience of industrial value creation is the transition of manufacturing networks and systems towards Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS). In this paradigm, manufacturing services are offered and consumed to create products and product components in supply chains or networks. To realize MaaS, platforms are needed to bring service providers and consumers based on a matchmaking together. An approach to ensure the future-proofness of suchlike platforms and the related matchmaking is to use semantic technologies, which enable the extension of models, on which platforms and matchmaking are based, over time.