Smart Cloud Manufacturing (Cloud Manufacturing 2.0) - A New Paradigm and Approach of Smart Manufacturing

This presentation is based on the works of research and applications in Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) carried out by the authors’ team*. Our team proposed the“Cloud Manufacturing" concept in 2009,and began to conduct the research and practice of cloud manufacturing Version 1.0.Through the practice in recent years, with the development of related technologies, our team started the research and exploration of “smart cloud manufacturing ”(cloud manufacturing version 2.0), it further develops the cloud manufacturing version 1.0 in manufacturing paradigm, technology approach, supporting technology, applications and other aspects. First of all, the meaning of Big Manufacturing is given, the challenges and countermeasures for manufacturing industries in China as well as the content and development of manufacturing informatization are introduced. Then the paradigm of smart manufacturing and the characters of smart manufacturing system of our team viewpoint are presented. The definition, concept model, system architecture, technological system, typical technical characteristics, service objects, service type, service content and service characteristic of the smart cloud manufacturing are put forward. Moreover, discussions are shown to prove that smart cloud manufacturing is a new paradigm and approach to realize smart manufacturing, which materializes and extends Cloud Computing in the manufacturing domain. Then the current status of the technologies, applications and industries for CMfg are briefly presented. 8 key technologies of technological system for the smart cloud manufacturing are briefly discussed, including(1)Overall technology of smart cloud manufacturing system,(2) Professional technology of smart product,(3)Supporting platform technology of smart cloud manufacturing system,(4)Smart cloud design technology,(5)Smart cloud product and equipment technology,(6)Smart cloud management technology,(7)Smart cloud simulation and experimental technology, (8)Smart cloud service technology. The research results on key technologies researched by the authors’ team are indexed. Some typical CMfg cases which have been successfully implemented in group enterprise and mid-small enterprise clusters in smart city are described. Finally, some problems worthy of attention in the further research and implementation of the smart cloud manufacturing are presented. *Team is composed of 28units come from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Second research institute of CASIC, China CNR Corporation Limited, Institute of Manufacture Engineering of Chongqing University, DG-HUST Manufacturing Engineering Institute, Beijing ND Tech Corporation Limited, Wuhan University of Technology and so on. Keynote Speaker 2: Dr. Ram D. Sriram Ram D. Sriram is currently the chief of the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Before joining the Software and Systems Division, Sriram was the leader of the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, where he conducted research on standards for interoperability of computer-aided design systems. He was also the manager of the Sustainable Manufacturing Program. Prior to joining NIST, he was on the engineering faculty (1986-1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory. At MIT, Sriram initiated the MIT-DICE project, which was one of the pioneering projects in collaborative engineering and documented in the book entitled Distributed and Integrative Collaborative Engineering Design, Sarven Publishers, 2002. Sriram has extensive experience in developing knowledge-based expert systems, natural language interfaces, object-oriented software development, life-cycle product and process models, geometrical modelers, object-oriented databases for industrial applications, health care informatics, bioinformatics, and bioimaging. He has consulted for several leading corporations all over the world. His client list (during his tenure at MIT) include Boeing, GE, NTT Data(Japan), NASA, Xerox Corporation, United Technologies, IIC (Spain). Sriram has co-authored or authored nearly 250 papers, books, and reports, including several books. He has published in a wide range of journals in engineering, computer science, and health care fields. The papers he and his group wrote have won many recognitions and awards, including many best paper awards and most cited paper awards. In 1989, he was awarded a Presidential Young Investigators Award from the National Science Foundation, U.S.A. In 2011, Sriram received the ASME Design Automation Award for "pioneering contributions to design automation, particularly in developing new technologies to support distributed and integrated collaborative design." Sriram was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for AI in Engineering (1986). Sriram served on the Executive Committee of the ASME's Computers in Engineering division for six years, including as its chair. From 2012 onwards, Sriram has been serving as a co-chair of NITRD's Software Design and Productivity group. He and his co-chairs have been developing a strategic direction for the group, including organizing a workshop to understand the software related problems in manufacturing and health care sectors in September 2013. Sriram is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member (life) of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and a member (life) of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Keynote speech: Network-Centric Manufacturing: Making it Happen Abstract: The early part of this millennium has witnessed the emergence of an Internet-based engineering marketplace, where engineers, designers, and manufacturers from small and large companies are collaborating through the Internet to participate in various product development and marketing activities. This will be further enhanced by the next generation manufacturing environment, which will consist of a network of cooperating engineering applications, where state of the art multi-media tools and techniques will enhance closer collaboration between geographically distributed applications, virtual reality tools will allow visualization and simulation in a synthetic environment, and information exchange standards will facilitate seamless interoperation of heterogeneous applications. In this presentation, I will discuss several technologies that are being developed to make the above vision a reality. The early part of this millennium has witnessed the emergence of an Internet-based engineering marketplace, where engineers, designers, and manufacturers from small and large companies are collaborating through the Internet to participate in various product development and marketing activities. This will be further enhanced by the next generation manufacturing environment, which will consist of a network of cooperating engineering applications, where state of the art multi-media tools and techniques will enhance closer collaboration between geographically distributed applications, virtual reality tools will allow visualization and simulation in a synthetic environment, and information exchange standards will facilitate seamless interoperation of heterogeneous applications. In this presentation, I will discuss several technologies that are being developed to make the above vision a reality. Keynote Speaker 3: Mike Sobolewski He is a World Class scientist at AFRL/WPAFB , a Professor of Computer Science at Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology (PJIIT), Poland, and a Chief Science Officer at SORCERsoft.com. Mike received his Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences and D.Sc. from the Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland. His prior experience includes being a Professor of Computer Science at Texas Tech University and Director of SORCER Lab from 2002 till 2009. From 1994-2002, he was Senior Scientist and chief architect of large-scale projects at the GE Global Research Center. Mike was also a visiting professor of Computer Science at West Virginia University (1989-1994) and has served as visiting professor and consultant in the USA, China, Russia, and most European countries. At the Polish Academy of Sciences, he was the Head of the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Department, the Head of the Expert Systems Laboratory, and was engaged in research in the areas of knowledge representation, knowledge-based systems, pattern recognition, image processing, neural networks, object-oriented programming, and graphical interfaces. Keynote speech: Unifying front-end and back-end federated services for integrated product development Abstract: Improvements in the design process, and the technologies that enable them, have led to significant reductions in time-to-market and improvements in product functionality and quality, mainly through automation. However, the need for further improvements in these areas, and the increasing need to reduce product life cycle costs, require significant further improvements in product design technology. A strong development methodology, with higher fidelity models to perform the conceptual design and compute the information required for the modeling and simulation analysis, is need which can be continuously upgraded and modified. Such a methodology should lead to a significant reduction in cost and development time without scarifying any of the desired product specifications. Moreover, it should be simple to comprehend, easy to implement and easily adaptable to a diverse nature of agile product development activities. Improvements in the design