Study on Multi-View Model for Cloud Manufacturing

Abstract

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new service-oriented, highly efficient, lowly consumption knowledge based, and intelligent networked manufacturing model. It aims to provide theoretical and technical supports for the transformation from production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing [1]. In order to further analyze the connotation and characteristics of CMfg, multi-view models for CMfg are investigated based on [1] and [2] in this paper. The first is the network view model, which describes four kinds of network involved in the running process of CMfg system; the second is the function view model, which describes the functional subsystems of CMfg; the third is the running view model, which represents the running process after a requirement is submitted to CMfg system.