On June 13^th, 2025 at 2.30 pm a new appointment of DEEPSE Forum Seminars series titled "Ontology application in the remanufacturing context" will take place at DEIB Meeting Room (Building 22).

Remanufacturing processes involve complex decision-making and knowledge management tasks across multiple domains, such as mechanical disassembly, inspection, and repair strategy selection. In this work, we present an ontological approach to formalizing core concepts and information flows in the context of the Remanet project, an ongoing EU founded project. Since the objective is to develop a semantic representation capable of supporting modular and recursive modeling of components, their conditions, and remanufacturing operations, the research introduces the ontology by presenting its definitions, illustrative examples, and the role of logical reasoning. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the foundational principles of ontology engineering can serve as an effective knowledge structuring framework for remanufacturing scenarios. In addition, we investigate the challenges related to knowledge formalization, particularly in distinguishing between deductive and inductive reasoning processes, which are critical when capturing both explicit knowledge and emerging patterns in remanufacturing workflows.

The seminar can be also be followed online on Teams.