Development of a Novel Solution to Enable Integration and Interoperability for Cloud Manufacturing

Nowadays, manufacturing enterprises have been faced with a globalized competitive environment. In this fierce condition, Cloud Manufacturing paradigm emerged as a promising concept for competition. It provides effective solutions and tools for manufacturing enterprises to collaborate in globalized market. The revolution that Cloud Manufacturing has created is based on the redefinition of the classic methods to those which are appropriate for todays' modern and globalized manufacturing environments. In parallel with cloud-based revolution, the expansion of internet-based technologies has been started. These technologies previously have been applied in many fields and resulted in interoperability and integration among different technological solutions. This promotes this paper to fill the gap which of technologies in Cloud Manufacturing solutions as well and enabling integrated and interoperable communication among manufacturing clouds. This paper has focused on the idea of manufacturing cloud integration and interoperability. The paper has studied the dominant Cloud Manufacturing researches to find the opportunities for proposing a novel solution. This solution is capable to resolve the integration and interoperability consideration for different manufacturing clouds. The paper has applied the EDI X12 standards for insuring an integrated and standard data format for its contribution. An example in area of Supply Chain Management will be discussed to show the capabilities of the proposed solution. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.