Collaborative environment for intelligent monitoring in manufacturing industry

This paper presents an innovative approach to support collaboration in manufacturing industry, especially related to intelligent monitoring of complex assembly and manufacturing systems in global settings. The new collaborative platform built based on service-oriented architectures principles is proposed. The innovative collaborative services to be combined with the existing tools for monitoring of assembly and manufacturing systems and information obtained via ambient intelligence systems installed within assembly and manufacturing systems are described. The application of such services in real manufacturing environment is presented.