In order to keep up with the flexibility and cost-efficiency requirements, the manufacturing industry has begun a transformation process towards a service-oriented production approach. This approach is in line with the cloud manufacturing paradigm that applies established concepts from cloud computing to the manufacturing domain. Although the cloud manufacturing paradigm provides promising conc...

The global economic constantly changing and the advent of new technologies imply the demand of changing in the business pattern of manufacturing industry. Nowadays, most manufacturing companies have realized the importance of collaboration between dispersed factories, different suppliers and distributed stakeholders, in a quick, real-time and effective manner. Cloud computing is an evolution of...

Cloud manufacturing is a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of reconfigurable manufacturing resources that can be rapidly encapsulated, provisioned and released as manufacturing services. Enterprises involved in cloud manufacturing networks share their heterogeneous business models, manufacturing resources and knowledge to provide high quality consumable manufacturing ...

Cloud Manufacturing is a new and promising manufacturing paradigm. Resource virtualization is critical for Cloud Manufacturing. It encapsulates physical resources into cloud services and determines the robustness of the cloud platform. This paper proposes novel multi-granularity resource virtualization and sharing strategies for bridging the gap between complex manufacturing tasks and underlyin...

The rise of cloud computing is radically changing the way enterprises manage their information technology (IT) assets. Considering the benefits of cloud computing to the information technology sector, we present a review of current research initiatives and applications of the cloud computing paradigm related to product design and manufacturing. In particular, we focus on exploring the potential...

Because of increasing competition and cost pressure, the manufacturing industry is currently undergoing massive changes that are facilitated by the usage of Information Technologies. Two particular aspects are the usage of Business Process Management (BPM) and Cloud technologies concepts in the manufacturing domain. Rapid elasticity is crucial for the enactment of manufacturing processes in the...

Some significant and related researches on software resource re-sharing in Cloud Manufacturing system at home and abroad is introduced, in addition, analyzing the structure of the software that applied to manufacturing currently are web-based, software are directly sharing, or package-based and remote sharing using the internet server provided the common software in a indirect sharing way. So t...

The UK’s economic prosperity increasingly depends on maintaining and expanding a resilient and sustainable manufacturing sector based on sophisticated technologies, relevant knowledge and skill bases, and a manufacturing infrastructure that has the ability to produce a high variety of complex products faster, better and more cheaply [1]. In this paper, we present Cloud Manufacturing – defined a...