
As engineering companies move towards Industry 4.0, the question of how to leverage the vast amounts of knowledge that they currently store in non-uniform formats must be addressed.
In many organisations, critical information is scattered between excel spreadsheets and relational databases (RDBs), which require skilled IT experts to extract the knowledge. Unification of this data is critical for the creation of data-driven production systems and to ensure that maintenance strategies are created with all the relevant data.
One way to achieve this is with ontologies and semantic reasoning. This blog describes how to use RDFox, a triple store developed by…
