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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Cloud Manufacturing Based on Cooperative Concept of SDN

2012 ◽  
Vol 482-484 ◽  
pp. 2424-2429 ◽  
Author(s):  
De Yi Tai ◽  
Fu Yuan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resource

As a new service-oriented manufacturing paradigm, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) was proposed to realize the added-value and on-demand use of manufacturing resource and ability. Compared with cloud computing, the complexity of CMfg cooperation was analyzed. Supply and demand network of enterprises with multifunction and opening characteristics (SDN) was introduced as a new paradigm of manufacturing cooperation. Dynamic, diversity, fully open and inclusive cooperation are the key concept of SDN. The CMfg cooperation based on SDN was analyzed, from three-dimension of lever, function and space. A model of cooperation-oriented CMfg was built. Resource-oriented, service-oriented and innovation-oriented cooperation were proposed to prompt the implementation and the platform building of CMfg, from the business cooperation perspective.

scholarly journals Blockchain-based cloud manufacturing platforms: A novel idea for service composition in XaaS paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e743
Author(s):  
Seyyed-Alireza Radmanesh ◽  
Alireza Haji ◽  
Omid Fatahi Valilai
Keyword(s):  
Service Composition ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Time Synchronization ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Service Oriented

Cloud manufacturing is a new globalized manufacturing framework which has improved the performance of manufacturing systems. The service-oriented architecture as the main idea behind this framework means that all resources and capabilities are considered as services. The agents interact by way of service exchanging, which has been a part of service composition research topics. Service allocations to demanders in a cloud manufacturing system have a dynamic behavior. However, the current research studies on cloud-based service composition are mainly based on centralized global optimization models. Therefore, a distributed deployment and real-time synchronization platform, which enables the globalized collaboration in service composition, is required. This paper proposes a method of using blockchain to solve these issues. Each service composition is considered as a transaction in the blockchain concept. A block includes a set of service compositions and its validity is confirmed by a predefined consensus mechanism. In the suggested platform, the mining role in blockchain is interpreted as an endeavor for proposing the proper service composition in the manufacturing paradigm. The proposed platform has interesting capabilities as it can increase the response time using the blockchain technology and improve the overall optimality of supply-demand matching in cloud manufacturing. The efficiency of the proposed model was evaluated by investigating a service allocation problem in a cloud manufacturing system in four large scale problems. Each problem is examined in four centralized modes, two, three and four solvers in blockchain-based model. The simulation results indicate the high quality of the proposed solution. The proposed solution will lead to at least 15.14% and a maximum of 34.8 percent reduction in costs and 20 to 68.4 percent at the solving time of the problem. It is also observed that with increasing the number of solvers (especially in problems with larger dimensions) the solution speed increases sharply (more than 68% improvement in some problems), which indicates the positive effect of distribution on reducing the problem-solving time.

scholarly journals The Essence of Cloud Manufacturing

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew N. O. Sadiku ◽  
Tolulope J. Ashaolu ◽  
Abayomi Ajayi-Majebi ◽  
Sarhan M. Musa
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Smart Manufacturing ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Resources ◽  
Manufacturing Software ◽  
Performance Computing

Cloud manufacturing is a service-oriented, knowledge-based smart manufacturing system. It is integrated with cloud computing technology, Internet of Things, and high-performance computing. Through cloud manufacturing, manufacturing resources (such as manufacturing software tools, manufacturing equipment, and manufacturing capabilities) are “virtualized” and offered as consumable in the same way as electricity, gas, and water. The manufacturing resources are provided to users as services over the Internet (cloud) in a pay-as-you-go manner. This paper presents a brief introduction to cloud manufacturing.

scholarly journals Cloud Manufacturing Platform and Architecture Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 673-680
Author(s):  
Julia Siderska ◽  
Khambi Mubarok
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Interface Layer ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Application Layer ◽  
Platform Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Manufacturing Platform ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Virtual Resources

Abstract Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) is an emerging networked manufacturing paradigm and service-oriented manufacturing model, in which distributed manufacturing resources are made available by providers according to consumers’ requirements as on-demand manufacturing services via networks (manufacturing clouds) and cloud manufacturing service platforms. Considering the concept of cloud manufacturing and its operation principle, the paper designs and introduces new proposal of cloud manufacturing service platform architecture, including the following six layers: physical resources layer, soft resources layer, virtual resources layer, services layer, application layer and service-oriented interface layer. After surveying majority of papers introducing architectures of CMfg service platforms, the paper recommends to map both hard as well as soft resources into cloud services from resource layers to virtual resource layer which highlights the core idea of the concept. The paper discusses also the fundamentals of the CMfg paradigm, introduces three groups of actors that participate in a cloud manufacturing system, as well as indicates briefly a typical hierarchy architecture of cloud manufacturing system.

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