Study on the Multi-Granularity Virtualization of Manufacturing Resources

As a new kind of networked manufacturing mode, Cloud Manufacturing needs to construct a large-scale virtual manufacturing resources pool firstly. For a reasonable and effective construction of the virtual manufacturing resources pool, the point of multi-granularity virtualization is proposed. Firstly, by analyzing the process of resources virtualization, the meanings of manufacturing resources, virtualization modeling and virtualization accessing are stated, and the relationships between them are illustrated; secondly, by analyzing the compositionality of resources, two resources categories are deduced; thirdly, the granularity factor, which have serious impacts on the resources-virtualization, resources-matching and resources-scheduling, are discussed; finally, a multi-granularity virtualization method of manufacturing resources is proposed.Copyright © 2013 by ASME