What's New...

Standardization

PSL has been accepted as a New Work Item (ISO 18629) within Joint Working Group 8 of Sub-committee 4 Industrial data and Sub-committee 5 Manufacturing integration of Technical committee ISO TC 184, Industrial automation systems and integration . The following drafts are currently available:
• Part 1 (Process Specification Language: Overview and Basic Principles)
• Part 11 (Process Specification Language: PSL-Core)

Ontology

The semantics of all terminology within PSL is formally specified using theories written in the Knowledge Interchange Format. Click here

Translators

Implementation of a generic architecture for translator development supporting syntactic translation -- given a set of semantic translation definitions for an application's terminology and the grammar for the application's process description, the software will generate a translator for PSL process descriptions.

The PSL has been successfully used to exchange manufacturing process information between the IDEF3-based ProCAP process modeling tool and the C++ based ILOG Scheduler. More Info.

The development of an initial mapping of the PSL semantic concepts to the EXPRESS representation. Click here

Preliminary findings describing how the PSL semantic concepts may be mapped to the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is now available.

Coming Attractions (Summer 2001)

The release of Version 2.0 of the database query mechanism which provides a more user-friendly view of the concepts in the PSL Ontology.

Twenty Questions Navigation Wizard to assist in the generation of semantic mappings for translation.




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