A New Paradigm of Manufacturing Management: Cloud Manufacturing

The global economic constantly changing and the advent of new technologies imply the demand of changing in the business pattern of manufacturing industry. Nowadays, most manufacturing companies have realized the importance of collaboration between dispersed factories, different suppliers and distributed stakeholders, in a quick, real-time and effective manner. Cloud computing is an evolution of the Internet. But it does not only change the technology, also enables collaborative innovation. Cloud manufacturing is a new form of networked manufacturing. It provides common and standard manufacturing services by cloud logic and principle. In this paper, a new concept is proposed based on the fundamental theory and key technologies of cloud manufacturing. It is Cloud Future Factory, which is designed to a real case company to manage its matrix-type organizational structure. Its production lines and business departments are distributed. Therefore, it’s very necessary to introduce an effective and dynamic information integration platform. This research paper offers an application of cloud manufacturing and leads to a new thinking of using cloud manufacturing concept in different formations.