EAGER: Cybermanufacturing: Pervasive Cyber-enabled Manufacturing

制造业通常是一个资本和技能密集型行业。然而，随着制造技术和网络基础设施的进步，进入制造业的门槛已显著降低。今天，一家公司可以建立一个拥有机床和3D打印机的制造工厂，通过互联网进行业务，并向全国和世界各地的客户供应零部件。通过延伸，有可能形成一个无处不在的、网络化的制造环境的愿景，将制造技术、服务和产品的供应商和客户联系起来。参与者在地理上分散，但通过网络基础设施联系在一起。为了探索和实现这一概念，该项目的目标是增加对创建创新的网络制造系统所需的机制和技术的了解。这个探索性研究的早期概念资助(EARGER)项目将创建和测试一个在线制造活动交易平台。开发的网络系统将允许不同规模的实体参与、合作和竞争。这项工作的结果可以促进基层制造业，并可能导致广泛的制造业在美国农村小城镇和内陆城市蓬勃发展。这个渴望的项目将研究建立一个无处不在的网络支持的制造系统的两个关键推动因素-一个可以被视为制造业的eBay的系统。这些任务涉及分析和综合制造业和网络空间知识。研究团队将调查、设计、原型和测试一个可扩展的在线平台，以匹配制造产品和服务的供需。由于制造活动的供应商具有不同的能力、能力和成本，客户具有不同的技术要求和预算约束，基于组合拍卖方法的高效在线动态匹配算法将被设计用于促进在线作业交易。该项目的第二个重点是设计、开发和评估健壮的即插即用机器控制器和制造工艺指令。为了通过即插即用连接用户，将创建一个基于网络的储存库，用于传输(投递和提取)零件设计和制造信息。基于模型的方法将被应用于理解和提高即插即用3D打印和加工的健壮性。将对在线交易进行模拟，以测试原型系统的可靠性和可扩展性。

Manufacturing is typically a capital and skill intensive industry. However, with advances in manufacturing technologies and cyber infrastructure, the barrier to entry into manufacturing has been significantly reduced. Today, it is possible for a company to establish a manufacturing facility with machine tools and 3D printers, conduct business through Internet, and supply parts to customers across the country and around the world. By extension, it is possible to form a vision of a pervasive, cyber-enabled manufacturing environment which links providers and customers of manufacturing technologies, services, and products. The participants are geographically dispersed, but are connected by the cyber infrastructure. To explore and enable this concept, the objective of the project is to increase the understanding of the mechanisms and technologies needed for creating an innovative cyber-enabled manufacturing system. This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will create and test a platform for trading manufacturing activities online. The developed cyber-enabled system will allow entities of different sizes to participate, collaborate, and compete. The results of the work can promote grassroots manufacturing and potentially lead to a widespread manufacturing industry thriving in rural small towns and inner cities across America.This EAGER project will study two critical enablers for building a pervasive cyber-enabled manufacturing system - a system that can be perceived as the eBay of manufacturing. The tasks involve analysis and synthesis of manufacturing and cyberspace knowledge. The research team will investigate, design, prototype, and test a scalable online platform to match supply and demand of manufacturing products and services. As the suppliers of manufacturing activities have different capabilities, capacities, and costs and the customers have different technical requirements and budget constraints, efficient and effective online dynamic matching algorithms, based on a combinatorial auction approach, will be designed to facilitate online job transactions. The second focus of the project is to design, develop, and evaluate robust plug-and-play machine controller and manufacturing process instructions. To connect users through plug-and-play, a web-based depository will be created for transmitting (drop-off and pick-up) part design and manufacturing information. The model-based approach will be applied to understand and improve the robustness of plug-and-play 3D printing and machining. Simulation of online transactions will be conducted to test the reliability and scalability of the prototype system.