MAKO: MAnufacturing knowledge organization system to support SME

Abstract In the manufacturing domain, the development of products requires a wide range of information and enterprises should effectively be able to store and integrate data coming from different sources. Starting from the manufacturing data available in an enterprise, i.e., the product trees, the working sequences, the list of roles and resources, we define a formal model as set of matrices to represent them. These matrices are further analyzed to define a data model at the basis of MAKO (MAnufacturing Knowledge Organization) system, whose main aim is to organize the manufacturing information in a structured archive, easily accessible by the managers who need to have a comprehensive view of their manufacturing knowledge. A prototype of the MAKO system was implemented by using open-source software and its potentialities in are shown in a case study.