Research on cloud manufacturing platform for small and medium-sized enterprises

Abstract

With the adjustment of China’s economic structure, it is essential for manufacturing enterprises, especially SMEs, to improve their core competitiveness. Based on the service mode of Cloud manufacturing, this paper designs and develops a cloud manufacturing platform for SMEs. Firstly, according to the characteristics of cloud manufacturing, the overall framework of the platform is determined, and the corresponding function tree is refined. Then, the key technologies are studied, including the modeling and standardization of manufacturing services, the matching of task, the execution, the online monitoring of service, and the evaluation of post-service. The functions of service access, service matching, outsourcing task management, remote monitoring, and evaluation of tasks are realized. Finally, the platform is applied in the mold manufacturing industry, and an example analysis is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed platform.

Keywords

• cloud manufacturing
• modeling and standardization of manufacturing services
• supply and demand matching
• remote manufacturing service monitoring