An Implementation for Collaborative Manufacturing Platform Oriented to Distributed Environment

E-collaboration and collaborative systems bring geographically dispersed teams together, and support communication, coordination and cooperation among the enterprises. Based on the collaborative design system developed by the author´s lab for some automotive parts company in China, several key technologies for developing enterprise collaborative manufacturing platform (ECMP) are presented. A multi-layer architecture of ECMP is established, and the workflow of ECMP is designed. The application integration with Web services technology is explained. A four-layered ontology model for information description in ECMP is proposed. The method of constructing dynamic alliance based on multi-agent theory, and the strategies of task scheduling optimization are discussed. Finally, an application case of ECMP prototypical system is introduced