CMfgIA: a cloud manufacturing application mode for industry alliance

Abstract

Industry alliance is a cooperative mode based on some kind of contract or restraint, which is a new stage of the evolution and development of industrial cluster. In order to enhance the sharing ability of manufacturing resources, a new application mode called cloud manufacturing for industry alliance (CMfgIA) is presented in this paper. Firstly, the concept, architecture, and operation mechanism of CMfgIA is elaborated. Secondly, a domain-driven development approach for multi- granularity manufacturing services is proposed to ensure on-demand supply of manufacturing resources. In the approach, an improved feature model which contains process information of service composition is used to construct domain requirements. Based on the feature model, two-phase development process of manufacturing service is described. In the first phase, atomic manufacturing services are developed based on atomic features, and in the second phase, coarse-grained manufacturing services are modeled through automatic service composition which is realized by feature model customization. Then, a relationship management model is applied to manage the relationships between customized feature models and manufacturing services. Finally, an application example of cloud manufacturing platform for elevator industry alliance is given to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of CMfgIA.