Model-Based Management of Asset Information

Software tools for engineering tasks typically aim at welldefined aspects of an overall project, for which they employ domain-specific models. Managing information on assets is an important cross-sectional task, which makes the exchange of information valuable to many domains. In order to enable software tools to exchange information, the underlying meta-model needs to be open and common. This primarily accounts for the contents of the meta-model (what is modeled), which is a different issue than the question how the model is technically represented. Hence, in this article the combination of an appropriate meta-model for asset information along with its integration into a service-oriented architecture is discussed from a conceptual perspective. It is not intentended to provide details of a possible implementation.