Product LifeCycle Ontology Network (PLCO)
The Product LifeCycle Ontology Network (PLCO) provides a shared vocabulary for representing information about product lifecycle in the form of a network of ontology modules.
The figure below shows an overview of the topics covered. The lines between the boxes represent some common-sense relations between the topics, which are represented as formal relations within the actual modules, such as owl:imports or specific object properties connecting concepts inside the modules.
Core Modules
The set of core modules that are in this release of PLCO forms a set of generic reusable ontology building blocks and include Actor, Process, Resource, and Observation.
Actor
Process
Resource
Observation
Supplementary
The following modules are supplemental to the core modules as shown in Figure 1.
Use Case Ontologies
The use case ontologies reuse the core modules of PLCO and focus on representing use case data about products' lifecycle operations.
Other Reused Ontologies
The following ontologies are not included directly in PLCO, but are reused or referenced.
