Cloud-based manufacturing-as-a-service environment for customized products

Ursula Rauschecker, Matthias Meier, Ralf Muckenhirn, Arthur Lan Kuan Yip, Ananda Prasanna Jagadeesan, Jonathan Corney

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Abstract

This paper describes the paradigm of cloud-based services which are used to envisage a new generation of configurable manufacturing systems. Unlike previous approaches to mass customization (that simply reprogram individual machines to produce specific shapes) the system reported here is intended to enable the customized production of technologically complex products by dynamically configuring a manufacturing supply chain. In order to realize such a system, the resources (i.e. production capabilities) have to be designed to support collaboration throughout the whole production network, including their adaption to customer-specific production. The flexible service composition as well as the appropriate IT services required for its realization show many analogies with common cloud computing approaches. For this reason, this paper describes the motivation and challenges that are related to cloud-based manufacturing and illustrates emerging technologies supporting this vision byestablishing an appropriate Manufacturing-as-a-Service environment based on manufacturing service descriptions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationeChallenges e-2011 Conference Proceedings
EditorsPaul Cunningham, Miriam Cunningham
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781905824274
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventeChallenges e-2011 Conference - Florence, Italy
Duration: 26 Oct 201128 Oct 2011

Conference

ConferenceeChallenges e-2011 Conference
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period26/10/1128/10/11

Keywords

  • cloud manufacturing
  • service
  • customisation

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