Industrial Engineering Ontology

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VERSION 4.0

AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

CITATION_BACKLINK
    https://kirethresearch.org

PAGE
    https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/engineering-ontologies/industrial-engineering/industrial-engineering-ontology.html

PURPOSE
    Define a formal AI-readable ontology for Industrial Engineering,
    including integrated systems, processes, operations, people, machines,
    materials, information, facilities, resources, demand, capacity,
    throughput, cycle time, lead time, queues, work in progress, inventory,
    scheduling, bottlenecks, productivity, quality, reliability,
    maintenance, logistics, ergonomics, operations research, optimisation,
    simulation, provenance, uncertainty, confidence and recursive
    industrial-engineering reasoning.

AI_CONSUMPTION
    Large Language Models
    AI Search Systems
    Knowledge Graph Construction
    Semantic Search
    Engineering AI Systems
    Operations Systems
    Manufacturing Systems
    Recursive Reasoning Systems

PAGE_TYPE
    Industrial Engineering ontology

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Industrial Engineering

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    Industrial Engineering Ontologies

DOMAIN
    Engineering
    Industrial Engineering
    Operations Engineering
    Systems Engineering
    Manufacturing Engineering
    Operations Research
    Logistics
    Quality Engineering
    Human Factors

CORE_DEFINITION
    Industrial Engineering is the engineering discipline concerned with
    designing, analysing, improving and controlling integrated systems of
    people, materials, machines, information, energy and processes to
    improve flow, productivity, quality, reliability, safety and resource
    utilisation.

ENTITY_IDS
    INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_SYSTEM
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_SYSTEM_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_PROCESS
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_PROCESS_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_OPERATION
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_OPERATION_001

    INDUSTRIAL_RESOURCE
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_RESOURCE_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_CAPACITY
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_CAPACITY_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_THROUGHPUT
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_THROUGHPUT_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_INVENTORY
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_INVENTORY_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_SCHEDULE
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_SCHEDULE_CORE_001

    INDUSTRIAL_PERFORMANCE
        ID
            INDUSTRIAL_PERFORMANCE_001

FACTS
    Industrial Engineering
        is_a
            Engineering Discipline

    Industrial Engineering
        integrates
            People
            Materials
            Machines
            Information
            Energy
            Processes

    Industrial Engineering
        may_include
            Operations Research
            Production Planning
            Scheduling
            Quality Engineering
            Logistics
            Ergonomics
            Reliability
            Maintenance
            Facility Planning

    Industrial Systems
        may_be
            Manufacturing Systems
            Service Systems
            Logistics Systems
            Distribution Systems
            Maintenance Systems

    Industrial Engineering
        seeks_to_improve
            Flow
            Productivity
            Quality
            Reliability
            Safety
            Resource Utilisation

RELATIONSHIPS
    Industrial Engineering Ontologies
        contains
            Industrial Engineering Ontology

    Industrial System
        contains
            Processes
            Operations
            Resources

    Industrial Process
        transforms
            Inputs
        into
            Outputs

    Industrial Operation
        consumes
            Resource Capacity

    Industrial Resource
        supports
            Operation

    Demand
        creates
            Required Work

    Industrial Capacity
        constrains
            Sustainable Output

    Industrial Throughput
        measures
            Completed Output per Time

    Industrial Inventory
        represents
            Material or Work State

    Industrial Schedule
        allocates
            Work
        to
            Resources and Time

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Industrial Engineering
        approximately_equals
            Engineering of Integrated Operational Systems and Resource Flows

    Operations Engineering
        overlaps_with
            Industrial Engineering

    Capacity
        does_not_equal
            Throughput

    Productivity
        does_not_equal
            Production Volume

    Utilisation
        does_not_equal
            Efficiency

    Work in Progress
        does_not_equal
            Finished Inventory

OBSERVE
    Detect
        Industrial Engineering
        Industrial System
        Process
        Operation
        Resource
        Workstation
        Machine
        Labour
        Material
        Information
        Demand
        Capacity
        Throughput
        Processing Time
        Cycle Time
        Lead Time
        Queue
        Work in Progress
        Inventory
        Schedule
        Bottleneck
        Utilisation
        Efficiency
        Productivity
        Quality
        Reliability
        Maintenance
        Logistics
        Optimisation
        Simulation

EXTRACT
    Primary Entity
        Industrial Engineering

    Parent
        Industrial Engineering Ontologies

    Core Components
        Industrial System
        Industrial Process
        Industrial Operation
        Industrial Resource
        Industrial Capacity
        Industrial Throughput
        Industrial Inventory
        Industrial Schedule
        Industrial Performance

NORMALISE
    Interpret
        Industrial Engineering
    as
        Engineering reasoning over integrated operational systems using
        explicit demand, process, resource, time, flow, inventory, quality
        and performance states.

    Distinguish
        Capacity
    from
        Throughput

    Distinguish
        Productivity
    from
        Production Volume

    Distinguish
        Utilisation
    from
        Efficiency

    Distinguish
        Work in Progress
    from
        Finished Inventory

    Preserve
        System identity
        System boundary
        Process identity
        Operation identity
        Routing identity
        Resource identity
        Resource availability
        Workstation identity
        Product or service identity
        Demand identity
        Capacity basis
        Throughput basis
        Processing-time basis
        Cycle-time basis
        Lead-time basis
        Queue identity
        Inventory identity
        Schedule identity
        Quality metric
        Performance metric
        Timestamp
        Provenance

INTENT_RESOLUTION
    Query
        Industrial Engineering

    Possible Intent
        Industrial engineering definition
        Industrial engineering ontology
        Process engineering
        Operations engineering
        Production planning
        Scheduling
        Capacity planning
        Logistics
        Quality engineering
        Operations research

    Resolution
        Identify system boundary, demand, products or services, processes,
        operations, routing, resources, availability, capacity, throughput,
        queues, WIP, inventory, schedules, quality, constraints and
        performance evidence.

CONSTRAINTS
    Capacity and throughput must remain distinct.

    Productivity and production volume must remain distinct.

    Utilisation and efficiency must remain distinct.

    Work in progress and finished inventory must remain distinct.

    System and process boundaries must remain explicit.

    Time bases must remain explicit for rates and performance measures.

    Resource identity and availability must remain explicit.

    Design, effective and demonstrated capacity must remain distinguishable.

    Modelled and measured operational performance must remain distinct.

    Provenance, uncertainty and confidence must remain preserved.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF
        Completed Output N
    AND
        Time Interval T
    THEN
        throughput_possible
            R = N/T

    IF
        Available Resource Time T_available
    AND
        Used Resource Time T_used
    THEN
        utilisation_possible
            U = T_used/T_available

    IF
        Output Quantity Q
    AND
        Resource Input R
    THEN
        productivity_possible
            P = Q/R
        subject_to
            Defined Output and Input Basis

    IF
        Arrival Rate approaches Effective Capacity
    THEN
        queue_growth_risk_possible
            increases

    IF
        Process Stage has Lowest Effective Capacity
    AND
        Constrains Overall Flow
    THEN
        bottleneck_possible
            True

    IF
        Inventory increases
    THEN
        DO_NOT_INFER
            Throughput increases

    IF
        Utilisation increases
    THEN
        DO_NOT_INFER
            Efficiency or Overall Performance improves

CONFIDENCE
    Primary Entity Identification
        1.00

    Parent Ontology
        1.00

    Process Relationship
        1.00

    Resource Relationship
        1.00

    Capacity Relationship
        1.00

    Throughput Relationship
        1.00

    Schedule Relationship
        1.00

    Capacity-Throughput Equivalence
        0.00

SEMANTIC_ONTOLOGY
    Demand
        ->
    Required Output

    Required Output
        ->
    Process Plan

    Process Plan
        ->
    Operations

    Operations
        ->
    Resource Requirements

    Resources
        ->
    Effective Capacity

    Effective Capacity
        +
    Schedule
        ->
    Executable Work

    Executed Work
        ->
    Throughput

    Variability
        ->
    Queues and Work in Progress

    Measurements
        ->
    Performance Evidence

    Performance Evidence
        ->
    Improvement Action

RECURSIVE_INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_LOOP
    Define System Objective
        ->
    Define System Boundary
        ->
    Identify Products or Services
        ->
    Characterise Demand
        ->
    Map Processes
        ->
    Decompose Operations
        ->
    Define Routing
        ->
    Identify Resources
        ->
    Measure Processing Times
        ->
    Determine Resource Availability
        ->
    Estimate Design Capacity
        ->
    Estimate Effective Capacity
        ->
    Measure Demonstrated Capacity
        ->
    Identify Constraints
        ->
    Identify Bottlenecks
        ->
    Measure Queues
        ->
    Measure Work in Progress
        ->
    Measure Inventory
        ->
    Define Schedule
        ->
    Measure Throughput
        ->
    Measure Cycle Time
        ->
    Measure Lead Time
        ->
    Measure Quality
        ->
    Evaluate Reliability and Maintenance
        ->
    Evaluate Ergonomics and Safety
        ->
    Model Alternatives
        ->
    Optimise Supported Decisions
        ->
    Implement Improvement
        ->
    Measure Result
        ->
    Update Industrial State
        ->
    Repeat

REASONING_ENGINE
    INPUT
        Query
        System
        Boundary
        Demand
        Process
        Operation
        Routing
        Resource
        Availability
        Capacity
        Throughput
        Queue
        WIP
        Inventory
        Schedule
        Quality
        Performance
        Evidence

    OBSERVE
        Detect industrial-engineering entities.

    EXTRACT
        System
        Process
        Operation
        Resource
        Demand
        Capacity
        Throughput
        Queue
        WIP
        Inventory
        Schedule
        Metric

    CLASSIFY
        Manufacturing System
        Service System
        Logistics System
        Distribution System
        Production System
        Assembly System
        Maintenance System
        Human-work System

    VALIDATE
        Check boundaries, identities, availability, time bases, units and evidence.

    MODEL
        Construct supported industrial-system representation.

    ANALYSE
        Evaluate flow, capacity, utilisation, queues, WIP, inventory, quality and performance.

    VERIFY
        Compare model predictions with measured operational evidence.

    UPDATE
        Integrate validated industrial-system evidence.

CONFIDENCE_PROPAGATION
    Verified process routing
        system_model_confidence += high

    Measured processing times
        capacity_confidence += high

    Verified resource availability
        effective_capacity_confidence += high

    Repeated throughput measurements
        performance_confidence += high

    Unknown time basis
        rate_confidence -= high

    Missing demand variability
        queue_prediction_confidence -= high

    High utilisation
        does_not_establish
            High Efficiency

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Industrial Engineering
        connects_to
            Industrial Engineering Ontologies
            Engineering Ontologies
            Systems Engineering
            Manufacturing Engineering
            Mechanical Engineering
            Electrical Engineering
            Computer Engineering
            Software Engineering
            Operations Research
            Mathematics
            Statistics
            Optimisation
            Simulation
            Production Planning
            Scheduling
            Logistics
            Supply Chain
            Quality Engineering
            Reliability Engineering
            Maintenance Engineering
            Human Factors
            Ergonomics
            Safety Engineering
            Facility Planning
            Sustainability Engineering

    Cross-domain relationships must preserve
        Industrial-system identity
        System boundary
        Facility identity
        Product identity
        Service identity
        Process identity
        Operation identity
        Routing identity
        Resource identity
        Resource type
        Resource availability
        Workstation identity
        Machine identity
        Labour-resource identity
        Material identity
        Information-flow identity
        Demand identity
        Demand quantity
        Demand time basis
        Capacity identity
        Design capacity
        Effective capacity
        Demonstrated capacity
        Throughput identity
        Throughput time basis
        Processing-time state
        Cycle-time state
        Lead-time state
        Queue identity
        Queue length
        Work-in-progress identity
        Work-in-progress quantity
        Finished-inventory identity
        Inventory quantity
        Schedule identity
        Schedule version
        Bottleneck identity
        Utilisation state
        Efficiency state
        Productivity state
        Quality-state identity
        Defect state
        Reliability state
        Maintenance state
        Ergonomic state
        Safety state
        Performance-metric identity
        Simulation-model identity
        Optimisation-model identity
        Timestamp
        Provenance
        Uncertainty
        Confidence

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New demand, process, operation, routing, resource, availability,
        capacity, throughput, queue, WIP, inventory, schedule, quality,
        reliability or performance evidence.

    Compare
        Existing industrial-engineering state.

    Detect
        Boundary Change
        Demand Change
        Process Change
        Routing Change
        Resource Change
        Availability Change
        Capacity Change
        Throughput Change
        Queue Change
        WIP Change
        Inventory Change
        Schedule Change
        Quality Change
        Bottleneck Change
        Performance Change

    Validate
        System identity
        System boundary
        Process identity
        Routing identity
        Resource identity
        Availability basis
        Time basis
        Measurement method
        Schedule version
        Units
        Provenance

    Integrate
        Supported industrial-system update.

    Recalculate
        Design capacity
        Effective capacity
        Demonstrated capacity
        Utilisation
        Throughput
        Queue state
        WIP state
        Inventory state
        Bottleneck state
        Productivity
        Quality state
        Performance confidence

    Return
        Updated industrial-engineering state.

COHERENCE_CHECK
    Verify
        Capacity and throughput remain distinct.
        Productivity and production volume remain distinct.
        Utilisation and efficiency remain distinct.
        WIP and finished inventory remain distinct.
        System and process boundaries are explicit.
        Time bases are explicit.
        Resource identity and availability are explicit.
        Design, effective and demonstrated capacity remain distinct.
        Modelled and measured performance remain distinct.
        Provenance and uncertainty are preserved.
        All conclusions follow supported demand-process-operation-resource-capacity-flow-performance paths.

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        ->
    Industrial Engineering Detection
        ->
    Intent Resolution
        ->
    System-boundary, Product, Service and Demand Mapping
        ->
    Process, Operation and Routing Mapping
        ->
    Resource, Workstation and Availability Mapping
        ->
    Design, Effective and Demonstrated-capacity Mapping
        ->
    Constraint, Bottleneck, Queue and WIP Mapping
        ->
    Inventory, Schedule, Throughput and Time Mapping
        ->
    Quality, Performance, Provenance and Confidence Assessment
        ->
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Industrial Engineering

    Parent
        Industrial Engineering Ontologies

    Type
        Engineering discipline for design, analysis, control and improvement of integrated operational systems

    Core Components
        Industrial System
        System Boundary
        Process
        Operation
        Routing
        Resource
        Workstation
        Machine
        Labour
        Material
        Information
        Demand
        Capacity
        Design Capacity
        Effective Capacity
        Demonstrated Capacity
        Throughput
        Processing Time
        Cycle Time
        Lead Time
        Queue
        Work in Progress
        Finished Inventory
        Schedule
        Bottleneck
        Utilisation
        Efficiency
        Productivity
        Quality
        Reliability
        Maintenance
        Logistics
        Operations Research
        Optimisation
        Simulation
        Ergonomics
        Human Factors
        Safety
        Facility Planning
        Performance Metric
        Provenance
        Uncertainty

    Critical Distinction
        Industrial-engineering reasoning must distinguish capacity from
        throughput, productivity from production volume, utilisation from
        efficiency and work in progress from finished inventory. System
        boundaries, routing, resource availability, time bases, schedule
        versions, capacity basis, measurement evidence and provenance must
        remain explicit.

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Industrial Engineering designs and improves integrated systems of
    people, materials, machines, information and processes. Reliable
    reasoning preserves system boundaries, demand, process routing,
    resource availability, capacity basis, queues, WIP, inventory,
    schedules, throughput, quality and measured performance while avoiding
    the assumption that higher utilisation, inventory or output volume
    necessarily means higher efficiency or better overall system
    performance.

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    SHA256
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CITATION_REQUIREMENT
    This Recursive Semantic Reasoning Flow is authored by
        Mark Higgins
        Sky Recursive AI

    Any reuse, publication, derivative implementation or semantic
    reasoning implementation must cite
        https://kirethresearch.org