Cloud Manufacturing Platform: Operating Paradigm, Functional Requirements, and Architecture Design

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Chun Zhao ◽  
Xudong Chai
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Reference Design ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Platform ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Main Components

Cloud manufacturing is emerging as a new promising business paradigm as well as an integrated technical approach, contributing to the shaping of a highly-collaborative, knowledge-intensive, service-oriented and eco-efficient manufacturing industry. The following research issues concerning cloud manufacturing platform, what users can achieve with the platform, what the platform can do, and how to design it, play crucial roles in this new area. This paper proposes a cloud manufacturing paradigm that depicts a typical scenario which can provide an explanation for the concept of cloud manufacturing and makes the mysterious “cloud” transparent. Then the functional requirements of cloud manufacturing platform are investigated to specify design objectives. Based on these, the paper presents the design of MfgCloud, a cloud manufacturing platform prototype. In discussion of the main components of MfgCloud, the specific concepts different from those corresponding terms in IT area are also defined and given their implementation mechanisms. Consequently, this paper proposes a new point of view for the concept of cloud manufacturing, and accordingly presents a reference design of cloud manufacturing platform.

Virtualize Manufacturing Capabilities in the Cloud: Requirements and Architecture

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Vincent Wang ◽  
Xun W. Xu
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Distributed Environment ◽  
Paper Manufacturing ◽  
Cloud Resource ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resource ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies

In recent years, Cloud Manufacturing concept has been proposed by taking advantage of Cloud Computing to improve the performance of manufacturing industry. Cloud Manufacturing attempts can be summarized as two sectors, i.e. manufacturing version of Computing Cloud, and a distributed environment that is networked around Manufacturing Cloud. In this paper, manufacturing resource, ability and relevant essentials are discussed in the service-oriented perspective. The functional requirements of a Cloud Manufacturing environment are discussed, along with an interoperable manufacturing system framework. Cloud resource integration models are developed that are compliant with existing international standards. It is possible to achieve a collaborative, intelligent, and distributed environment via Cloud Manufacturing technologies.

An Individual Requirements-Oriented Service Scheduling Method in Cloud Manufacturing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longfei Zhou ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Lei Ren
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Service Scheduling ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Scheduling Method ◽  
The Individual

Cloud manufacturing is a novel service-oriented networked manufacturing paradigm for the manufacturing industry. Through aggregating distributed manufacturing resources from different enterprises and transforming them into services, cloud manufacturing is able to provide on-demand manufacturing services to customers. Scheduling, including resource scheduling and task scheduling, is a critical instrument for achieving on-demand service provisioning, and also an important research issue in cloud manufacturing. In the process of service scheduling in cloud manufacturing, the manufacturing services are firstly matched according to the service demander’s functional requirements and service availability to form the candidate service sets. And then the optimized service scheduling scheme is generated according to the service demander’s non-functional requirements. The individual requirements of service demanders are analyzed from aspects of functional and non-functional requirements in this paper. On this basis, the scheduling process for individual requirements in cloud manufacturing system is studied and a cloud manufacturing service scheduling method is proposed. This work can provide support and foundation for the related research of task planning and scheduling in cloud manufacturing system. Finally, a case study is given to verify the proposed service scheduling method.

Cloud Manufacturing Resource Management Based on Metadata

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Zhao ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Xuesong Zhang ◽  
Liang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
State Monitoring ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Centralized Management ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resources ◽  
Resource Data ◽  
Manufacturing Platform ◽  
Management Approaches

Centralized management and sharing of manufacturing resources is one of the important functions of cloud manufacturing platform. There are many kinds of manufacturing resources, centralized management, optimized scheduling, quick searching for various manufacturing resources become important issues in a cloud manufacturing platform. This paper presents a resource management model based on metadata to realize the access and unified management of the hardware resources, software resources and knowledge resources. Two management approaches respectively for static and dynamic resource data are introduced to realize resource state monitoring and real-time information collecting. On this basis, the relationship between static and dynamic data is determined and service-oriented of resources is realized.

Cloud-Based Intelligent User Interface for Cloud Manufacturing: Model, Technology, and Application

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Jin Cui ◽  
Ni Li ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Cuixia Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Service Oriented

Cloud manufacturing is gradually transforming the way enterprises do business from traditional production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing. The development of cloud manufacturing in industry practice is closely related to domain-specific user experience. The huge amount of users with diverse roles and various requirements in manufacturing industry are facing great challenges of cloud system usability problems. Thus, user interface issues play a significant role in pushing this new area forward. In this paper, we discuss the key characteristics of intelligent user interface (IUI) for cloud manufacturing, i.e., naturality, smart mobility, self-configuration, and flexible customization. Further, a cloud-plus-IUI model for cloud end-users is presented. Then we discuss the enabling technologies, i.e., automatic configuration based on virtualization, context-aware adaption and recommendation, and multimodal interaction. Finally, we present SketchPart, a sketch-based pad system prototype for searching part drawings in the cloud, to show the advantages of the proposed cloud-plus-IUI solution.

Dynamic Supply-Demand Matching for Manufacturing Resource Services in Service-Oriented Manufacturing Systems: A Hypernetwork-Based Solution Framework

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Cheng ◽  
Fei Tao ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Dongming Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resource ◽  
Manufacturing Platform ◽  
Product Service Systems

Nowadays, service-oriented manufacturing (SOM) systems (e.g., cloud manufacturing (CMfg), product service systems (PSS), etc.) have attracted more and more interesting and attention of researchers from many different fields. However, because of the complex and dynamic environment, one of the most important issues need to be addressed for the promotion and application of SOM system is the dynamic supply-demand matching and scheduling of manufacturing resource services. In this paper, the issue of supple-demand matching in the typical SOM system is carried out at first. Then the dynamics and different models facing different users and different demands are analyzed respectively. As a result, a hypernetwork-based solution framework of this issue and the cloud manufacturing platform adding with the related functions are proposed with consideration of multi-objects, statistical characteristics and evolution. Finally, some future works with big data and industrial Internet of things are pointed out in the summary.

scholarly journals A Bilayer Resource Model for Cloud Manufacturing Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linan Zhu ◽  
Yanwei Zhao ◽  
Wanliang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Resource Model ◽  
Attribute Model ◽  
Manufacturing Resource ◽  
Manufacturing Resources ◽  
Manufacturing Platform ◽  
Resource Service

Cloud Manufacturing and Cloud Service is currently one of the main directions of development in the manufacturing industry. Under the Cloud Manufacturing environment, the characteristics of publishing, updating, searching, and accessing manufacturing resources are massive, complex, heterogeneous, and so forth. A bilayer manufacturing resource model with separation of Cloud End and Cloud Manufacturing Platform is proposed in this paper. In Cloud End, manufacturing resources are divided into single resource and complex resource, and a basic data model of manufacturing resources oriented to enterprise interior is established to store the physical characteristics. In Cloud Manufacturing Platform, a resource service attribute model oriented to actual users is established to store the service characteristics. This model is described in detail and realized with stateful Web Service Description Language (WSDL) document. An example is provided for illustrating the implementation of the concept.

Cloud Manufacturing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Matthew Sadiku ◽  
Yonghui Wang ◽  
Suxia Cui ◽  
Sarhan Musa
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Collaborative Manufacturing ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Basic Concepts

Cloud manufacturing is emerging as a new manufacturing paradigm which applies well-known basic concepts from cloud computing to manufacturing processes and deliver shared, ubiquitous, on-demand manufacturing services. It  is an innovative, web-based manufacturing model. It is promising to transform today’s manufacturing industry from production-oriented to service-oriented, highly collaborative manufacturing of the future. This paper provides a brief introduction to cloud manufacturing.

Cloud Manufacturing: An Industry Survey

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiegang Zang ◽  
Yongkui Liu ◽  
Xun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Status ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Model Cloud ◽  
Business Technology ◽  
Technology Trends

The emerging business technology trends such as cloud, Internet of Things, and the new requirements and challenges of future development of manufacturing industry such as green manufacturing and knowledge innovations, have together given rise to a novel cloud-based service-oriented manufacturing business model — cloud manufacturing. Since its inception, cloud manufacturing has attracted much attention of researchers from both academia and industry. As a nascent concept aiming to achieve comprehensive and full resource sharing and e-business collaboration, the success of cloud manufacturing depends heavily on the support and participation of industrial enterprises. However, so far there have been few reports on the status of cloud manufacturing among industrial enterprises. In order to understand the situation of cloud manufacturing in industry, we conducted a survey with respect to its acceptability and application prospect among enterprises located in Jiangsu province, China. This paper presents the results of the survey and some analysis.

Order-Oriented Manufacturing Resource Services Sharing of Building Material and Equipment Enterprise in Cloud Manufacturing

2013 ◽  
Vol 823 ◽  
pp. 565-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bai Gang Du ◽  
Shun Sheng Guo ◽  
Yi Bing Li ◽  
Jun Guo
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Remote Collaboration ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resource ◽  
Manufacturing Resources

The cloud manufacturing brings forward a new idea of manufacturing resource sharing with service-oriented. Recent advances in information technology, such as cloud computing, internet of things, make it easier for heterogeneous resources in different regions to remote collaboration in cloud manufacturing. To help improve the success of distributed manufacturing resource sharing for service provider and user in building material and equipment enterprise (BMEE), the order-oriented cloud service library (OCSL) and order-based model for shared manufacturing resources (OMSMR) are proposed after analysing the management features of manufacturing resources in BMEE. The OCSL gives a relationship description between task orders and related services. Moreover, a case study is undertaken to evaluate the proposed model. The model brings into manufacturing industry for manufacturing resource sharing with a number of benefits such as openness, integrity and traceability.

Industry 4.0 and Cloud Manufacturing: A Comparative Analysis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongkui Liu ◽  
Xun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Business ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Model Cloud ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Business Technology

The introduction of the Internet into the manufacturing environment is becoming a prominent trend. In this context, two important concepts concerning manufacturing, i.e. Industry 4.0 and cloud manufacturing have been proposed. Industry 4.0 refers to the fourth industrial revolution and is often understood as the application of Cyber-Physical Systems in industrial production with the help of the Internet to achieve the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services. Meanwhile, the Internet-based new business technology trends, such as cloud, servitization and collaboration, have brought about a novel cloud-based service-oriented manufacturing model — cloud manufacturing. These two concepts, though bearing some similarities, adopt different ideas and approaches for promoting the development of manufacturing industry. Given the great significance of the two concepts to the manufacturing industry, there is a need to understand their similarities and differences. This paper firstly gives a brief up-to-date review of Industry 4.0 and cloud manufacturing, and then clarifies the relationship between them based on the basic concepts and their current research statuses.

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