Industrial Ontologies Foundry Meeting 2020

Venue: Jeannette Martin Room, 5th Floor, Capen Hall, University at Buffalo, NY 14260

Date: March 5, 2020

The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) is an initiative to create a suite of ontologies to support digital manufacturing. On May 5 an IOF working meeting will be held at UB featuring who are three prominent members of the IOF community:

Hyunmin Cheung (Autodesk)

“Ontology to Support Modeling and Reuse of Data for Physics-Based Simulation

Martin Hardwick (STEP Tools / Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute), speaking on

Ontologies and Product Models: BFO and STEP

Dusan Sormaz (Ohio University)

In addition Alex Kitt of Buffalo Manufacturing Works will speak on

The Additive Manufacturing Data Landscape: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunity for the Industrial Ontologies Foundry

We will begin with a working session focusing on IOF issues such as the ontology of computer-aided design.

During the afternoon we will organize a public session designed to introduce UB faculty and students to the IOF and to the new ISO top-level ontology standard (ISO/IEC 21838).