ABSTRACT
Manufacturers are seeking new technologies and methods in order to shorten product development cycle and improve innovation capacity, especially for design stage of mechatronics products. Currently, making use of advanced CAD and CAE tools to build a unified product definition model throughout various stages of a product life cycle is a solution for many manufacturing enterprises. However, the current advanced CAD/CAE product price is quite expensive. Furthermore, most CAD/CAE products are for different applications, and have different data structures, resulting in Isolated Islands of automation, which is not conducive to the exchange of information and sharing of design data between designers and developers. Therefore, this paper considers the common demand of product design and performance optimization for mechatronics manufacturers and builds a manufacturing public computing platform combining cloud computing technology. This mechatronics manufacturing cloud computing platform provides various services to manufacturing enterprises enabling them to make full use of the platform resources, such as computing capacity, storage, networking, software and design data, with very low cost.
