Scheduling Methodology for Production Services in Cloud Manufacturing

Abstract

Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) is the delivery of resources control and abilities for manufacturing through the internet. It offers a personalized manufacturing service through several processes (e.g. the order decomposition into tasks, the selection of one or several providers to perform them, the scheduling of the whole manufacturing process). The current paper aims to provide an optimized methodology for task scheduling. In a first time, it identifies the background and general concept of CMfg, focuses further on the scheduling challenges and the environmental data and constraints to propose an optimized methodology for the scheduling process.