5 root concepts for a meta-ontology to model product along its whole lifecycle*

PLM approaches are based on the definition of a common and shared meta-model. Defining these meta-model, especially in the case of ontology-based models, is often a manual a difficult task. A framework for modeling meta-ontology. The framework is based on five root concepts : product, process, resource, rule and business. These concepts are disjoints, high level, meaningful, and generic. We compare them to concepts of existing models and propose an application scenario to validate the proposed framework.