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Cloud manufacturing service platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises

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In order to address the key problems faced by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), existing solutions and shortcomings were analyzed. The possibilities by using the new emerged technologies and theories (e.g., cloud computing, internet of things, service-oriented technology) to solve the bottlenecks faced by SMEs are investigated. The idea of manufacturing resource and capability sharing based on cloud computing for SME is discussed, and an SME-oriented cloud manufacturing service platform (SME-CMfgSP) is introduced. The architecture of SME-CMfgSP is proposed, and the key technologies for implementing SME-CMfgSP are introduced in details. The challenges for implementing cloud manufacturing service platform for SMEs were discussed. A case study is described to illustrate the application of the proposed SME-CMfgSP.

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  1. Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Biqing Huang & Chenghai Li

  2. State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China

    Chao Yin

  3. NDTech Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100020, China

    Xinpei Zhao

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Huang, B., Li, C., Yin, C. et al. Cloud manufacturing service platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 65, 1261–1272 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-012-4255-4

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