EAGER/Collaborative Research: Web-architectures for Extensible, Adaptable and Scalable Manufacturing

这个早期概念探索性研究补助金(AGER)合作项目的目标是进行一次严格的审查，并为可扩展、可适应和可扩展的制造开发一套协议和架构要求。信息技术(IT)的革命性进步推动了互联网的无处不在的使用，互联网迅速改变了我们的工作、生活和娱乐方式。互联网技术的影响可以在医疗保健、能源和公共安全等国家优先事项的不同领域看到。这些进展还促进了电子商务在网络购物、通信和其他服务市场的应用。然而，在一般的制造业领域，由于独特的挑战，这些IT进步的采用并不广泛。非常需要研究与Web体系结构相关的问题，以促进有机的、社区参与的软件工具开发。根据这些要求，计划要么确定现有架构，要么为概述的制造环境提出创新架构。这种体系结构需要使企业合作伙伴(在更广泛的制造业社区中)能够使用、修改和调整对其自身活动至关重要的现有软件工具，并与这种基于网络的体系结构相连接，以便能够实现各种制造和相关服务活动。这种网络体系结构将寻求促进更大的社区参与的开发和响应，以促进参与制造和相关活动的企业更广泛地使用软件工具。在功能层面上，这样的体系结构还需要促进相关实体(即人、服务、资源)适应、修改和协作，以实现从简单到复杂的制造活动。调查结果将发表在同行评议会议以及其他期刊出版物上，以便让相关的制造业和计算机科学界参与进来。调查结果也将公布在项目网站上。

The objective of this EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) collaborative project is to conduct a critical review and to develop a set of set of requirements for protocols and architectures for extensible, adaptable, and scalable manufacturing. Revolutionary advances in Information Technology (IT) have fueled the ubiquitous use of the Internet which has rapidly changed the manner in which we work, live and play. Impact of Internet technologies can be seen in diverse areas of national priority such as health care, energy and public safety. These advances have also promoted e-commerce for cyber shopping, communication and other service markets. However, in the general domain of manufacturing, the adoption of these IT advances has not been widespread due to unique challenges. There is a great need to investigate issues related to web-architectures that can foster an organic, community-involved development of software tools. Based on these requirements, the plan is to either identify existing architectures or propose an innovative architecture for the manufacturing context outlined. This architecture needs to enable enterprise partners (in the broader manufacturing community) to use, modify and adapt existing software tools essential to their own activities but also interface with this web-based architecture so that various manufacturing and related service activities can be realized.Such a web architecture will seek to foster a larger community-involved development and response that promotes more widespread use of software tools by the enterprises involved in manufacturing and related activities. At a functional level, such an architecture needs to also facilitate related entities (i.e., humans, services, resources) to adapt, modify and collaborate to achieve simple-to-complex manufacturing activities. Findings will be published in a peer-reviewed conference as well as other journal publications in order to engage the pertinent manufacturing and computer science communities. Findings will also be posted on the project website.