Study on framework of manufacturing grid supporting collaborative manufacturing

In order to support collaborative manufacturing among virtual enterprises and with reference to operation mechanism of grid technologies and net-worked manufacturing, the manufacturing grid (MGrid) architecture and the MGrid collaborative manufacturing framework were proposed. The manufacturing grid resource management system (MGRMS) and manufacturing grid task management system (MGTMS) were developed in this research. The Former, MGRMS, provides fundamental functions for remote resource encapsulating, registry, discovery and monitoring by integrating metacomputing directory service (MDS) and the other modules provides by Globus; and the later, MGTMS, performs manufacturing task modeling, disassembling, distributing, scheduling and so on. Furthermore, an application prototype was presented at the end of the paper to illustrate the utilization of the proposed framework.