Product ontology is often constructed by explicating the domain ontology in a formal ontology language. The OWL Web Ontology
Language has been positioned as a standard language. It requires technical expertise to directly represent the domain in OWL.
An alternative way is to let a domain expert provide a conceptual representation of the domain, and to mechanically translate
it into the corresponding OWL codes. We have developed a modeling tool called PROMOD to achieve this process in the product
domain. We employ an Extended Entity-Relationship for conceptual model, enriched with modeling elements specialized for the
product domain. We present how each element may be technically represented in OWL. We also provide a modeling scenario to
demonstrate the practical feasibility of the tool in the field.