As emphasized in the European Green Deal and in the New Industrial Strategy for Europe, developing new standards, coupled with increased efforts of inter- national standardization bodies, will be essential to boost industry’s competitiveness and build a sustainable and more inclusive future. Recent European H2020 projects and clusters, Joint Industrial Projects in industry and advanced standards of Standardization Development Organizations converge towards new ways of using standards to enable integration of data and applications, thus enabling new ways of working all along the products' and plants' life cycle and ecosystem. In this talk, I will elaborate in the context of developing an industrial ecosystem and real interoperability conditions: 

• a necessary common framework for information management and its genericity, based on ISO15926-14 ontology for an efficient formal and concretes disambiguation of concepts then ISO15926-4 PCA (more than 60000 concrete classes) for our Multi-Energies Company business objects references URI mappings, then we add additional standards such ISO/IEC81346 for systems, ILAP and ISO15926-13, for dynamic aspects of quality configuration management against roles and activities all along Life-Cycle Information. 

• an agreed methodology required for the alignment of internal reference data, models and technical repositories with external ontologies-based standards, such as ISO 15926-14/-4, and other future SMARTs (Standards Machine Applicable Readable and Transferable), digitalized according to common principles and rules for the provision of consistent digital specifications, and configurations management. 

• a concrete illustration thanks to a set of tools enabling industry standards visualization, manipulation, and mapping/linking to enterprise data. All these operations based on capabilities offered by the W3C semantic web standards are necessary for a real and manageable interoperability and for delivering the real value of incoming digital twins. 

•  We will illustrate our point with the ongoing TotalEnergies initiative of Reference Data Domain business objects alignment exercise to feedback our experience outcomes and provide some way forward and lessons learned perspectives. 

Panel vision: 

We would like to bring together researchers and 2 kinds of industry representatives: 

• (1) technology providers (of semantic solutions) and 

• (2) semantic technology consumers such as Siemens, Bosch and Total that rely on ontologies and KGs to model equipment, processes, etc and put such models in production. We claim that is still a gap between what research and technology providers offer to industry today and the actual industrial needs. During the panel we plan to discuss whether such gap indeed exists and how to mitigate it.

Panel format:

• Each panelist has 10 min to give a short presentation of her/his organisation (3-5 min), thoughts / pitch on the topic of the panel (5-7 min).

• Then, we will have 1h for question answering and discussions (questions from panellists to each other, questions from the audience, questions from the moderators).

• We plan to have short presentations grouped in 2 sessions - first 3 talks of technology adopters and then 3 talks of technology providers.

Ontology has been touted as a solution to interoperability and a formal knowledge representation in an evolving collaborative industrial domain. However, even where ontologies are used in industry, they are often embedded as components in larger proprietary systems. Moreover, such ontologies were in almost all cases developed without any heed to reuse existing ontology or apply lessons learned from past initiatives. Most of the common concerns for reusing existing ontology are regarding lack of consensus among models, limited coverage of domains, and ambiguity in the semantic definitions of the concepts of those ontologies. Furthermore, such disagreement among ontologies arises because most of them do not adhere to a suitable top-level ontology and often built without following a standard ontology development methodology. Consequently, adopting these ontologies rather increases the risk and uncertainty of the project in place of saving time and effort. The presentation addresses different layers of ontologies interoperability and will introduce some examples of ambiguity for each of the layers. The speaker introduces how these interoperability issues may be mitigated by stratification of ontologies.

Agenda: round table where companies and academics can express interest on EU funding applications, targeted calls and topics, and targeted consortium. We alslo expect an alignment between existing projects such as OntoCommons and Dome 4.0.