Implementing Manufacturing as a Service: A Pull-Driven Agent-Based Manufacturing Grid
Leo van Moergestel, Erik Puik, Daniël Telgen, John‐Jules Ch. Meyer · 2015
User requirements and low-cost small quantity production are new challenges for the modern manufacturing industry. This means that small batch sizes or even the manufacturing of one single prod- uct should be affordable. To make such a system cost-effective it should be capable to use the available production resources for many different products in parallel. This paper gives a description of the requirements and architecture of an end-user driven production system. The end-user communicates with the production system by a web interface, so this manufacturing system can be characterized in terms of cloud comput- ing as the implementation of manufacturing as a service, abbreviated to MaaS.