Product platform architecture for cloud manufacturing

Abstract

Cloud manufacturing is emerging as a new manufacturing paradigm and an integrated technology. To adapt to the increasing challenges of the traditional manufacturing industry transforming toward service-oriented and innovative manufacturing, this paper proposes a product platform architecture based on cloud manufacturing. Firstly, a framework for the product platform for cloud manufacturing was built. The proposed architecture is composed of five layers: resource, cloud technology, cloud service, application, and user layers. Then, several key enabling technologies for forming the product platform were studied. Finally, the product platform for cloud manufacturing built by a company was taken as an application example to illustrate the architecture and functions of the system. The validity and superiority of the architecture were verified.

Keywords

Cloud manufacturing / Cloud service / Product platform / Architecture / Product collaborative design

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Funding

The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFB1104201)

National Natural Science Foundation of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809(51675028)

Aeronautical Science Foundation of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004750(20171651015)

State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011133(DMETKF2017020)