Flexible management of resource service composition in cloud manufacturing

Abstract

With the development of microelectronics, computer technology, information technology, and intelligent of machinery and control equipment, the flexible manufacturing technique has become one of the key developing directions for advanced manufacturing technology. The cloud manufacturing (CMfg), which is a new generation service-oriented networked manufacturing model, can provide the users distributed in different places with the manufacturing resource and manufacturing ability services through the centralized management. In order to improve the quality of resource service optimal-allocation and cope with the flexible issues in CMfg, this paper investigated the definition and classification of flexibility in the whole life-cycle of resource service composition in CMfg, and the related factors in life-cycle of resource service composition were analyzed. The flexible management architecture for resource service composition in CMfg was designed. The key issues and their solutions in flexible management of resource service composition were preliminarily discussed.

Correlation-aware QoS modeling and manufacturing cloud service composition

“…Zhang et al (2011) discussed the relations and differences between CMfg and existing models such as agile manufacturing, networked manufacturing and service oriented manufacturing, from philosophy perspective and the viewpoint of application. Existing research work on CMfg has mainly emphasized only the following aspects: (1) the architecture of CMfg (Li et al , 2011Tao et al 2011;Xu 2012), (2) the modeling and encapsulation of MCSs (Cheng et al 2012;Hu et al 2012;Vincent Wang and Xu 2013), (3) resource searching and matching methods for MCSs (Hu et al 2013;Yang and Wang 2013), (4) prototype platforms for CMfg (Ren et al 2013;Zhang et al 2014), (5) cloud service composition Liu et al 2013;Tao et al 2013;Zhang et al 2010). However, the current work related with manufacturing cloud service composition primarily concentrates on its architecture, types of services correlation, dynamically composition and optimization algorithms for services selection.…”

Cloud-based Platform to Facilitate Access to Manufacturing IT

“…Such cloud solutions are often based on the virtualisation and management of manufacturing resources on a cloud computing platform [5], [6], [7]. However, such solutions are usually not configurable to address individual company requirements.…”

From Cloud Manufacturing to Cloud Remanufacturing: A Cloud-Based Approach for WEEE

“…Selection of the composition of a resource service can be achieved through quantitative evaluation of flexibility. To control and manage the flexibility of the service composition in CManufacturing, Zhang et al [24] proposed architecture that considers various major dynamic-change factors in the life-cycle of a resource service. A monitoring module is suggested to connect manufacturing resources and users, for flexible remote management.…”