Due to shorter product life cycles, increasing product variants and shrinking lot sizes, manufacturing companies are expected to produce according to frequently modified product specifications. In order to enable this, the available manufacturing machines have to be checked whether they can cope with such changing requirements. A computer-readable skill description of a machine can be used for an automated matching of changing product requirements. Accordingly, this contribution presents a product-oriented description approach of manufacturing machine skills. The application of the concept is demonstrated by an example of a drilling station.
