C-MARS-ABM: A Deployment Approach for Cloud Manufacturing

Mourad, Mohamed, Nassehi, Aydin, Newman, Stephen and Schaefer, Dirk ORCID: 0000-0002-5695-9312 (2017) C-MARS-ABM: A Deployment Approach for Cloud Manufacturing. In: 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR) 2017, 2017-9-5 - 2017-9-7, Greenwich, UK.

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Abstract

Cloud manufacturing is defined as a resource sharing paradigm that provides on-demand access to a pool of manufacturing resources and capabilities aimed at utilising geographically dispersed manufacturing resources in a serviceoriented manner. These services are deployed via the Industrial Internet of Things and its underlying IT infrastructure, architecture models, as well as data and information exchange protocols and standards. In this context, interoperability has been identified to be a key enabler for implementing such vertically or horizontally integrated cyber-physical systems for production engineering. Previously, the authors proposed an interoperability framework called C-MARS (Cloud Manufacturing Resource Sharing System) to enable error free and non-ambiguous information transfer between the various components and layers of a typical cloud manufacturing system. The main contribution of this paper concerns the identification of the key process parameters for deploying cloud manufacturing processes via a generic and costing-based operation and deployment model (CMARS-ABM) used to simulate interoperable cloud-based manufacturing scenarios for parts of different complexity, varying production numbers, and service composition setups typical to SMEs of varying sizes. Initial results confirm that Cloud Manufacturing is not a one-size-fits-all solution, and that there are indeed a number of driving parameters that need to be analysed to determine whether or not an investment in cloud manufacturing may be financially beneficial and advisable given a specific scenario.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Cloud Manufacturing, C-MARS, C-MARS-ABM, Interoperability
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	08 Sep 2017 10:03
Last Modified:	01 Feb 2024 20:10
DOI:	10.3233/978-1-61499-792-4-213
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3009337