Convergence of Manufacturing Cloud and Industrial IoT

The manufacturing cloud (CMfg) covers the use of three key technologies including cloud computing, the industrial internet of things (IIoT), and collaborative engineering for achieving the productivity and quality challenges in the big manufacturing, which is enabled due to the communication, mobile, and broadcasting network. It is necessary to establish a flexible and adaptive infrastructure for manufacturing industry to share and use various manufacturing resources and services on-demand under the dynamic, complicated, and large-scale business environment. The CMfg makes the industry more agile, responsive, and reconfigurable for exposure to the industry as a global manufacturing enterprise. The chapter considers the CMfg facets and IIoT, use cases in the manufacturing industry, and explains IIoT and CMfg as a complementary technology.