A Multi-view Model Study for the Architecture of Cloud Manufacturing

A typical hierarchy architecture of cloud manufacturing was described briefly. The main character of the architecture is that all resource entities are mapped into cloud services from physical resource layer to virtual resource layer, which highlights the core idea of open cloud service architecture. A list of view models including resource, function and information view is adopted to depict the resource constitutes, function and information architecture of cloud manufacturing, then the three views is connected as a whole by a process view. By a typical cloud manufacturing system work process, the relationships between resource, function, information view and process view are educed, which presents the essential and whole relationship view of cloud manufacturing architecture.