Building a Collaborative Manufacturing System on an Extensible SOA-based Platform

This paper introduces an extensible SOA-based platform that facilitates implementation of various e-collaboration systems. First, it reviews the roadmap of SOA evolution and examines the trend of service orientation in network architecture field, then it constructs a holistic service-oriented platform integrating into Web services, component-based and messaging-based technologies. After analyzing the requirements of collaboration manufacturing (CM), a typical CM model for virtual manufacturing enterprise alliance is presented. It also defines four levels of CM services according to the degree of process-centric. Finally, it illustrates how to dynamically compose a service-oriented application solution using BPEL4WS