Combining with the emerged technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of things, service-oriented technologies and high performance computing, a new manufacturing paradigm – cloud manufacturing CMfg – for solving the bottlenecks in the informatisation development and manufacturing applications is introduced. The concept of CMfg, including its architecture, typical characteristics and the key technologies for implementing a CMfg service platform, is discussed. Three core components for constructing a CMfg system, i.e. CMfg resources, manufacturing cloud service and manufacturing cloud are studied, and the constructing method for manufacturing cloud is investigated. Finally, a prototype of CMfg and the existing related works conducted by the authors' group on CMfg are briefly presented.
['Lin Zhang', 'Yongliang Luo', 'Fei Tao', 'Bo Hu Li', 'Lei Ren', 'Xuesong Zhang', 'Hua Guo', 'Ying Cheng', 'Anrui Hu', 'Yongkui Liu']
Cloud manufacturing: a new manufacturing paradigm