The increasing complexity of smart manufacturing environments demands interfaces that can translate high-level human intents into machine-executable actions. This paper presents a unified framework that integrates instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) with ontology-aligned Knowledge Graphs (KGs) to enable intent-driven interaction in Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) ecosystems. We fine-tune Mistral-7B-Instruct-V02 on a domain-specific dataset, enabling the translation of natural language intents into structured JSON requirement models. These models are semantically mapped to a Neo4j-based knowledge graph grounded in the ISA-95 standard, ensuring operational alignment with manufacturing processes, resources, and constraints. Our experimental results demonstrate significant performance gains over zero-shot and 3-shots baselines, achieving 89.33\% exact match accuracy and 97.27\% overall accuracy. This work lays the foundation for scalable, explainable, and adaptive human-machine
@article{arxiv.2602.12419,
title = {Intent-Driven Smart Manufacturing Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models},
author = {Takoua Jradi and John Violos and Dimitrios Spatharakis and Lydia Mavraidi and Ioannis Dimolitsas and Aris Leivadeas and Symeon Papavassiliou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12419},
year = {2026}
}