EAGER: Cyberinfrastructure for Manufacturing Systems: Needs and Opportunities

EAGER：制造系统的网络基础设施：需求和机遇

• 批准号: 1150330
• 负责人: Dawn Tilbury
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1150330&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Cyberinfrastructure; Manufacturing; Systems; Needs

This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will evaluate the limitations of the current Internet structure and protocols, and begin to characterize what changes or enhancements are needed so that future manufacturing systems can be set up as quickly and easily as today's e-commerce systems.A cyberinfrastructure for manufacturing systems does not yet exist, and it is not clear how the current Internet Web-based service structure could be applied to manufacturing systems. The project will evaluate several different frameworks, standards, and architectures that have been developed both for Internet/e-commerce systems and for manufacturing systems. Commonalities between the two as well as significant gaps will be exposed. The project will lead to new understanding of the fundamental limitations of the current Internet web-based service structure when applied to manufacturing systems. Gaps in the current state-of-the-practice will be identified, and future directions for research and development will be outlined that would enable better interoperatiblity, openness, and scalability of manufacturing systems.Cyberinfrastructure has the potential to create a paradigm shift in the design and operation of manufacturing systems. A manufacturing cyberinfrastructure with the right functionality can enable the creation of virtual manufacturing communities, distributed across diverse physical locations, connected digitally by the Internet and physically by logistics. This cyberinfrastructure can facilitate emergent efforts to produce a new product on a small or large scale. The results of this research have the potential to enable small-scale businesses to break into new markets.

这个探索性研究（EAGER）项目将评估当前互联网结构和协议的局限性，并开始描述需要哪些变化或增强，以便未来的制造系统可以像今天的电子商务系统一样快速轻松地建立起来。制造系统的网络基础设施还不存在，而且目前尚不清楚如何将基于Internet的服务结构应用于制造系统。该项目将评估已经为Internet/电子商务系统和制造系统开发的几个不同的框架、标准和体系结构。两者之间的共性以及显著的差距将会暴露出来。该项目将导致对当前基于互联网的服务结构在应用于制造系统时的基本局限性的新理解。将确定当前实践状态中的差距，并概述未来的研究和开发方向，以实现制造系统的更好的互操作性、开放性和可扩展性。网络基础设施有可能在制造系统的设计和操作方面创造一种范式转变。具有适当功能的制造网络基础设施可以创建虚拟制造社区，分布在不同的物理位置，通过互联网进行数字连接，并通过物流进行物理连接。这种网络基础设施可以促进小规模或大规模生产新产品的紧急努力。这项研究的结果有可能使小型企业进入新的市场。