Europe is trying to fix a major problem in digital manufacturing: everyone uses different terminology to describe materials and processes, and as a result, industrial data is fragmented, incompatible and difficult for software, AI systems and simulations to interpret. That inconsistency has become a major barrier to scaling advanced digital technologies across European manufacturing.
To address the issue, the EU-funded DiMAT project is contributing its expertise to a new initiative aimed at standardising how materials terminology is defined and used.
The initiative is being carried out in partnership with DIN, Germany’s national standards body, and Fraunhofer IWM, which is contributing its expertise in materials data structures and ontology development.
The effort is being developed through the newly launched CEN Workshop “Terminology Definition for Domain Ontologies in Materials Science” (CEN/WS OntoWF), which has now published a draft agreement and opened it for public comment. [Read more…] about Europe begins major push to standardize materials terminology across industry