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A Web-based Framework for Distributed and Collaborative Manufacturing

Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications

To develop a distributed and collaborative manufacturing system at an enterprise level, different domains like manufacturability evaluation, resource coordination, process planning, scheduling, fabrication, and logistics, have to be seamlessly integrated for product and process development. This integration necessitates a need to formalize, encode and share manufacturing related knowledge. Collaborative manufacturing provides a mechanism for information sharing and decision making between the various domains. Further, with the introduction of software agents, individual manufacturing elements are able to cooperate to promote collaborative manufacturing. This chapter addresses the development of a web-based framework for distributed and collaborative manufacturing.

An Internet-Integrated Manufacturing System Prototype

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1999

A prototype Internet-Integrated Manufacturing (IIM) system has been built based on the Internet, which provides a generic infrastructure and the WorldWide Web, which provides a common user interface. Manufacturing services can be registered with a central server acting as a manager. A user, equipped with only a standard Web browser, can look up various manufacturing services registered with the manager, use a Web-based computer-aided solid design software to interactively collaborate with remote group members to design a product, invoke file format translation services, create a physical model through rapid prototyping, and examine images of the rapidly-produced specimen, without installing any special software, or leaving the office.

A web service application to support distributed manufacturing

Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 2012

Manufacturing as an industrial activity that starts with the conceptual project and ends with proper material disposal or its reuse has evolved from a centralized to a distributed process. The several components of the process are distributed according to space and time. This evolution was possible due to the support of information technology, which allows manufacturing data management. However, this evolution happened in an independent way in each process phase, creating isolated solutions and consequently a high heterogeneity in data management. The development of a Federative Factory Data Management offers a solution of a transparent support to the users who need to obtain information from different proprietary systems. As an example of a service that demonstrates the possibility of federative management of manufacturing data in service oriented architecture within a heterogeneous and flexible environment, this article presents the estimated calculation of the manufacturing time for a complex surface.

A Web Based Framework Supporting Collaboration in the Manufacturing Process

Despite the rapid evolution of technology and more specifically of the web and the services provided, the weakness of an immediate transformation of data exchange in the manufacturing world still exists. The need of promoting the collaboration between designing and manufacturing systems is driving towards the need of independent and reliable systems. This paper presents a framework based on the usage of Web Services technology along with the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), the SOAP protocol and the UDDI registries in an attempt to facilitate the communication between designers of prismatic parts and manufacturing companies. This electronic interaction is independent of any specific CAD/CAM software and provides an easy, fast and more economical way of manufacturing a workpiece.

Web–based decision system for effective process planning in network manufacturing environment

— Recent advancements in Information technology and pervasive applications of Web-enabled services wield a profound influence on manufacturing systems and in particular on distributed networked manufacturing environment. In this paper, a modelling schema is proposed for integrating a distributed feature-based design system to organize concurrent engineering activities effectively. Later, with developed Web based decision support tool the activities of manufacturing system are integrated. The managerial insights listed in this report, obtained from the analysis suggest that the developed methodologies and tool for networked manufacturing environment offers with a number of benefits such as high interoperability, openness, cost-efficiency, and production scalability.

A Review of Developments in Web Based Manufacturing

2013

Deeming the befall changes in market needs, virtual production management will produce immense complementary appraisal for manufacturers. Customer needs for ultimate products are very unforeseeable due to rapid changing environmental conditions and technologies. A significant change in the environment of industrial firms is the propagation of internet technologies in production processes. As scheduling of shop floor operations is a topical and partial decision in enterprises, the distributed local scheduling problems should be unified at the enterprise level. Since decisions at the shop floor are very valuable, the subsequent generation of production management will be performed as a decentralized system. Collaborative agents for production planning and scheduling and web based manufacturing systems have been developed in the past decennary. Web based systems are developed for collaborating activities in different life cycle phases of product development such as design, process plan...

Web Services to support Collaborative Business in manufacturing networks

The European manufacturing industry is currently facing a very c ompetitive environment. As one answer to this market pressure collaborative business became a major trend in research and development in the last two years. The dimensions of collaborative business which are forms, assets, stages and phases of collaboration indicate interesting new fields of research. Consequently the need for tools and methods enabling flexible integration of business processes in manufacturing networks is dynamically increasing. Web Services show one mechanism to enable collaborative busi ness.

Implementation of Web based Technique into the Intelligent Manufacturing System

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2011

Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) shall be considered as a system integrated with different intelligent subsystems, which completes the distributed solution procedure on the basis of exchanging large quantities of materials, energy and information. Any intelligent manufacturing process selfregulates and self-controls itself in manufacturing the products within the design specifications. It incorporates introduction of human-like decision-making capabilities into the manufacturing system that brings the intelligence. The system however requires complete information of the requirements and processing of production system to generate appropriate decisions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of research on web-enabled e-Manufacturing technology which bridges certain aspects of manufacturing system like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Web-based systems have been implemented to provide remote service and manufacturing for rapid prototyping, enhance the availability of facilities and improve the capability of rapid product development for various enterprises. Web-based technique is utilized to derive the availability of information anytime, anywhere and by the persons who are authorized to deal with it. The e-Manufacturing production system can substantially reduce product cost and delivery cycle for manufacturing systems.

A distributed internet-based framework for manufacturing planning

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2006

Manufacturing organizations worldwide are reinventing their product development practices in an effort to satisfy changing customer requirements. In the context of these changes influencing the manufacturing community, there is a need to develop frameworks, architectures, and methods to facilitate the creation, implementation, and functioning of virtual enterprises (VEs). This paper presents an Internet-based framework, which supports distributed process planning activities in the context of a VE. Typically, in a VE, the enterprise partners are distributed, and possess diverse skills and heterogeneous software resources, which employ heterogeneous computing platforms. Using the developed approach, physically distributed product development partners can collaborate virtually via the Internet and integrate their life-cycle product development activities through seamless information exchange. In this framework, the distributed manufacturing resources communicate with each other via the Internet inter-ORB protocol (IIOP) using an object request broker (ORB) at each distributed site.

Implementation and Operation of Collaborative Manufacturing Networks

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014

Collaborative networks of manufacturers, suppliers and even customers are an emerging trend in global manufacturing. Higher flexibility, shorter time to market and economic as well as technological synergies create value and strengthen the market position of such virtual enterprises. The ComVantage framework already provides a sophisticated technical approach for dynamic collaborative manufacturing networks based on semantic data, mobile app orchestration, business process modelling and sophisticated access control. This article discusses the services and processes that are necessary to implement and operate a virtual enterprise using the ComVantage framework. It identifies services and service providers, and proposes an infrastructure and a tool environment for the ComVantage approach.