EAGER: Cybermanufacturing: Pervasive Cyber-enabled Manufacturing

制造业通常是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大大降低。如今，公司可以建立拥有机床和3D打印机的制造工厂，通过互联网开展业务，并向全国和世界各地的客户供应零部件。通过扩展，可以形成一个普遍的、网络化的制造环境的愿景，将制造技术、服务和产品的提供商和客户联系起来。参与者在地理上分散，但通过网络基础设施连接起来。为了探索和实现这一概念，该项目的目标是加深对创建创新的网络制造系统所需的机制和技术的理解。这个早期概念探索性研究资助 (EAGER) 项目将创建并测试一个在线交易制造活动的平台。开发的网络系统将允许不同规模的实体参与、协作和竞争。这项工作的结果可以促进草根制造业，并有可能导致美国乡村小镇和内城区广泛的制造业蓬勃发展。这个EAGER项目将研究构建普遍的网络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。这些任务涉及制造和网络空间知识的分析和综合。研究团队将调查、设计、原型设计和测试可扩展的在线平台，以匹配制造产品和服务的供需。由于制造活动的供应商有不同的能力、能力和成本，而客户有不同的技术要求和预算限制，因此将设计基于组合拍卖方法的高效在线动态匹配算法，以促进在线作业交易。该项目的第二个重点是设计、开发和评估强大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存储库，用于传输（投放和提取）零件设计和制造信息。基于模型的方法将用于理解和提高即插即用 3D 打印和加工的稳健性。将进行在线交易模拟，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.