Abstract

This presentation is based on the works of research and applications in Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) carried out by the authors' team

Team is composed of 28 units come from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Simulation Center, China CNR Corporation Limited, Institute of Manufacture Engineering of Chongqing University, DG-HUST Manufacturing Engineering Institute, Beijing NDTech Corporation Limited, Wuhan University of Technology and so on…

. First of all, the meaning of Big Manufacturing is given, the challenges and countermeasures for manufacturing industries as well as the content and development of manufacturing informatization are analyzed. The paradigm of smart manufacturing and the characters of smart manufacturing system are presented. The definition, concept model, system architecture, technological system, typical technical characteristics and service object and content of CMfg are put forward. Moreover, discussions are shown to prove that CMfg is a new paradigm and approach to realize smart manufacturing, which materializes and extends Cloud Computing in the manufacturing domain. Then the current status of the technologies, applications and industries for CMfg are briefly presented. Twelve key technologies of technological system for the CMfg, including system overall technology; sensing technology for manufacturing resource and capability; virtualization and service technology for manufacturing resource and capability; construction & management technology for virtual manufacturing environment; operation technology for virtual manufacture environment; evaluation technology for virtual manufacturing environment; trusted service technology for virtual manufacturing; management, analysis and mine of knowledge, model and data; pervasive human-computer interaction technology; application technology of service platform; product service technology and informatized manufacturing technology, are discussed. The results on twelve key technologies researched by the authors' team are indexed. Furthermore, Two typical CMfg cases which have been successfully implemented in group enterprises and mid-small enterprise clusters as well as cases introducing smart manufacturing into smart city are described. Finally, future works and some attending research problems of CMfg are presented.