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Gird manufacturing: a new solution for cross-enterprise collaboration

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Industry has put forward demands on cross enterprises collaboration including various resources sharing. In order to meet these demands, much has been done to realize cross-border collaboration. However, after analyzing the unique features of manufacturing resources and the limits of existing technologies like Internet, EC, ASP and Web-based design/manufacturing, which adopt many new Web technologies like Web mark-up languages, Web-based client–server programming tools and distributed object modeling methods, it is concluded that all these technologies could not meet industrial demands on dynamic sharing of various resources. Therefore grid manufacturing is put forward to meet these demands. According to the features of resources to be shared and the technologies to be used, grid manufacturing distinguishes itself from Web-based manufacturing by providing the transient services and by achieving the interoperability. The differences and relationship between grid manufacturing and grid computing are yielded. At last, a Web service-based architecture of grid manufacturing is proposed and the related technologies are summarized.

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  1. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Qiong Liu

  2. Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

    Yong Jiang Shi

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Liu, Q., Shi, Y.J. Gird manufacturing: a new solution for cross-enterprise collaboration. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 36, 205–212 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-006-0832-8

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