A SLA-aware Architecture for Manufacturing Grid Resource Management

Performing more sophisticated manufacturing task on manufacturing grid (MG) demands increased level of control over manufacturing services. We present a SLA-aware (service level agreement) manufacturing grid resource management architecture to address this challenge. Of this architecture, resource scheduler module allows a SLA to be negotiated between manufacturing resource provider and consumer to guarantee the level of provided manufacturing capability, and resource co-reservation module assures necessary manufacturing resources are available when required; furthermore, the approach of manufacturing resource encapsulation (MRE) makes it possible to combine manufacturing resources span multiple manufacturing grid domains to provide the manufacturing capability required by submitted manufacturing task.