ABSTRACT
The Cloud manufacturing shopfloors play a very important role in supporting the sharing of various resources and capacities (Zhong, 2013). Figure 1 shows a typical Cloud manufacturing shopfloor production. In this environment, traditional resources are converted into Smart Manufacturing Objects (SMOs) by using the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology (Qu, 2012; Dai, 2012; Zhong, 2015). However, there are large number of complexities and varieties such as differences of workers’ skill, large quantities of
1 INTRODUCTION
Cloud manufacturing is a new manufacturing paradigm developed from existing advanced manufacturing models and enterprise information technologies under the support of cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), virtualization and service-oriented technologies, and advanced computing technologies so as to transform manufacturing resources and capabilities into various services, which can be managed and operated in an intelligent and unified way to enable the full sharing and circulating of them (Xu, 2012). Cloud manufacturing can provide safe and reliable, high quality, cheap and on-demand manufacturing ser-
directed by David Luckham (Lan, 2015). In parallel there have been two other research projects: Infospheres in California Institute of Technology, directed by K. Mani Chandy, and Apama in University of Cambridge directed by John Bates (Huang, 2013). The commercial products were dependents of the concepts developed in these and some later research projects and community efforts started in a series of event processing symposiums organized by the Event Processing Technical Society, and later by the ACM DEBS conference series. One of the community efforts was to produce the event processing manifesto (Tao, 2014; Zhang, 2014; Zhong, 2014).
