Title :
Manufacturing grid: a next generation manufacturing model
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Pennsylvania State Univ., Malvern, PA, USA
Abstract :
We envision that manufacturing would be operated in a more integrated and collaborative fashion in the future. A manufacturing grid would be created for low-cost and high productivity productions through controlled resource sharing across enterprises just like a computational grid. All participants (i.e., factories) in the manufacturing grid would provide designated production services for making different products. This paper introduces such an innovative concept. A formal model defining how a manufacturing grid would operate in the future is proposed. A simplified application is prototyped.
Keywords :
grid computing; production engineering computing; distributed computing; manufacturing grid; networking technology; production services; productivity production; Collaboration; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Manufacturing systems; Production facilities; Resource management; Semiconductor device manufacture; Supply chain management; Virtual manufacturing; Waste materials;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8566-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401268
