The vision of knowledge-based and intelligent manufacturing systems is driving the development of system architectures, which can seamlessly manage information flows across multiple heterogeneous manufacturing systems and provide the necessary services to support the execution of production processes. Constantly changing business conditions and turbulent scenarios force manufacturing companies to continuously adapt their business processes and manufacturing systems. In such a context, a flexible infrastructure that supports the full integration of processes and adapts its services is needed. This paper presents an innovative semantic service framework that enables the adoption of service lifecycle management (SLM) in an SOAbased integration framework.
