Cloud computing enables offering of manufacturing services over the Internet. Manufacturing related transactions such as product data, order data, production planning and status updates can exchange in the network. Close to real-time information provided by manufacturing portals can create manufacturing ecosystems, where machine owners, product designers and customers may collaborate and compete. This paper reviews potential models for cloud based manufacturing ecosystems and presents possible implications for practice. A prototype model of CloudEcosystem is presented.
Supply Chain Management
Cloud-based Manufacturing Ecosystem – application development
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