The essence of the process specification language (original) (raw)

1999, Transactions of the Society …

In all types of communication, the ability to share information is often hindered because the meaning of that information can be affected drastically by the context in which it is viewed and interpreted. This is especially true among manufacturing simulation systems because of the growing complexity of manufacturing information and the increasing need to exchange this information not only among different simulation systems but also between simulation systems and systems that perform different functions (e.g., process planning, scheduling, etc.). Different manufacturing functions may use different terms to mean the exact same concept or use the exact same term to mean very different concepts. Often, the loosely defined natural language definitions associated with the terms contain much ambiguity that doesn't make these differences evident and/or do not provide enough information to resolve the differences.