EAGER/Cybermanufacturing: Abstractions and Architectures for Open Composable Services

基于云的设计和制造的一个关键要素是软件和硬件资源的虚拟化概念，它允许向不同的制造商社区自动组合和交付制造服务，并支持各种制造行业。这个早期概念探索性研究（EAGER）项目将研究制造业中这种可组合服务的新架构，这些服务寻求通过开放通信和互操作性协议取代有问题和易出错的数据转换。如果成功，这项研究将使各种软件工具和制造应用程序之间的标准化开放通信成为可能。反过来，这将使制造服务虚拟化，从而显著提高效率，进一步推动制造业的民主化，并赋予制造文化以力量。本研究旨在通过关注四个具体任务来证明新方法的可行性：(1)确定制造知识的模块化表示的关键抽象，包括形状、材料和物理信息；(2)用可计算函数（构造和查询）形式化这些抽象；(3)使用已确定的抽象和功能，开发用于互操作性和服务组合的开放协议；(4)在选定的用例场景中调查体系结构的有效性。如果成功，研究结果将用于开发网络制造中开放可组合服务的抽象和体系结构的综合研究议程。

A key element of cloud-based design and manufacturing is the notion of virtualization of software and hardware resources, which allows automated composition and delivery of manufacturing services to diverse communities of makers and supports a variety of manufacturing industries. This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will investigate new architectures for such composable services in manufacturing that seek to replace problematic and error-prone data translation by open communication and interoperability protocols. If successful, the research will empower standardized open communication between variety of software tools and manufacturing applications. This in turn should enable the virtualization of manufacturing services, leading to significant gains in efficiency, further fueling democratization of manufacturing, and empowering the culture of making.This research seeks to demonstrate feasibility of the new approach by focusing on four specific tasks: (1) identifying key abstractions for modular representation of manufacturing knowledge, including shape, material, and physical information; (2) formalizing these abstractions in terms of computable functions (constructions and queries); (3) developing open protocols for interoperability and composition of services using the identified abstractions and functions; (4) investigating effectiveness of the architecture on selected use-case scenarios. If successful, the results of the research will be used to develop a comprehensive research agenda on abstractions and architectures for open composable services in cyber-manufacturing.