Modeling of manufacturing service supply–demand matching hypernetwork in service-oriented manufacturing systems

Abstract

The supply-demand matching and optimal-allocation of manufacturing resource and manufacturing capability, is always one of the key scientific issues to be addressed and the common objectives to be pursued for various advanced manufacturing systems (AMSs). Especially to the service-oriented manufacturing (SOM) systems (e.g., cloud manufacturing), which is a kind of typical and hot AMSs nowadays , it is extremely difficult to achieve the optimal allocation of large scales of different manufacturing services and the collaboration of manufacturing activities and business among massive manufacturing enterprises (no matter manufacturing service providers and consumers). Thus, under the current environment of social competition and collaboration, the most important challenge is how to integrate a variety of distributed manufacturing resources and capabilities in the form of manufacturing services efficiently and cost-effectively, as well as various demands or manufacturing tasks. In response to this challenge, the concept of supply-demand matching hypernetwork ( Matching_Net ) of manufacturing services in SOM system is put forward firstly in this paper. The proposed Matching_Net is constructed with manufacturing service network ( S_Net ), manufacturing task network ( T_Net ), and hyper-edges between those two networks which are revealing the matchable correlations between each service (supply) and each task (demand). Secondly, by comparing with the input or output information of manufacturing services and tasks from the functional view, the intelligent modeling of Matching_Net is illustrated and divided into those three constituent parts respectively. Finally, the simulation is carried out to validate and verify the proposed models and the modeling method. The model of hypernetwork (i.e., network of networks) is introduced into the supply-demand matching issues in service-oriented manufacturing systems.The concept and model of supply-demand matching hypernetwork ( Matching_Net ) of manufacturing services in SOM system are put forward considering both manufacturing services and manufacturing tasks.By comparing with the input or output information of manufacturing services and tasks, the intelligent modeling flow of Matching_Net is proposed and illustrated.The simulation is carried out to validate and verify the proposed models and the corresponding modeling method.