Authors:
Sarfraz Ul Haque Minhas
and
Ulrich Berger
Affiliation:
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Keyword(s):
Knowledge Management, Environmental Management Tool, Ontology, Environmental Assessment, Decision Support System.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Semantic Web
;
Soft Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The environmental efficiency based decision making to decide for optimal manufacturing routes in the
decentralized production, has become very complicated. The draining of skilled workers, limited
functionalities of decision support tools, localisation of information resources, unavailability of adequate
environmental knowledge, systematic management of the same and non automated information exchange
between various information tools are among the causes that generally hamper the decision making process.
The complexities can be resolved if the mechanism for environmental data collection, structuring and
retrieval over a web environment is developed so that both collaborative and individual decision making is
possible. This paper discusses the case study from the automotive manufacturing area and the development
of environmental knowledge management tool capable of providing planners and production managers the
knowledge related to the potential environmental impact of the manufacturi
ng choices in a distributed
manufacturing scenario.
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