EAGER/Cybermanufacturing: CYMAN: A CYber MANufacturing and Entrepreneurship Initiative to Foster Global Manufacturing

网络制造是指利用互联网和其他软件技术，在不同地点的不同专业领域的组织之间实现协同制造。EARLY概念探索性研究补助金（EAGER）项目涉及创建网络制造方法和实践，涉及美国和国际大学的学生;这些学生将组建团队，合作并为两类产品提出/开发新想法：（i）可以通过3D打印生产的物理部件或产品，以及（ii）用于智能手机和平板电脑的“应用程序”，这些应用程序可以实现网络制造协作。总体目标是鼓励工科学生成为制造业和相关软件领域的网络企业家;物理产品和软件应用程序的成功想法将被商业化。将向学生提供援助，以创建新的企业或创业公司。该项目涉及多个学科，针对不同工程领域和计算机科学的本科生和研究生。团队活动将在工程课程的背景下完成，这些课程还将向学生介绍新兴的实践和技术，并为他们成为IT密集型世界的领导者做好准备。将建立跨学科工程学生的协作社区，他们将通过网络制造试验台进行互动，该试验台将利用当前的互联网和正在发展的下一代互联网。网络制造测试平台将为创建和支持此类网络协作的应用程序提供基础。采用开放/共享、可扩展的架构将使潜在的分布式合作伙伴能够以敏捷的方式发现和响应机会。将探索从现有的基于云的网络到新兴的基于下一代GENI的智能网络的技术，以支持这个网络社区。计算基础设施将强调提供对协作软件资源的“按需”访问，其中远程访问协议和模拟平台发挥着至关重要的作用。随着新兴的软件定义计算（SDN）和网络解决方案的出现，将有可能在各种制造企业（包括小型企业）之间部署端到端的信息交换服务，而无需大型网络供应商和服务提供商的支持。将采用瘦客户端方法访问网络工具（在制造、设计、仿真等方面）。确保数据密集型操作的安全管理。

Cyber manufacturing refers to the use of the Internet and other software technologies to accomplish collaborative manufacturing from different locations among various organizations with different areas of expertise. This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project deals with creation of cyber manufacturing approaches and practices involving students in the US and international universities; these students will form teams, collaborate and suggest/develop new ideas for two categories of products: (i) physical parts or products which can be produced by 3D printing, and (ii) "apps" for smart phones and tablets which enable cyber manufacturing collaborations. The overall goal is to encourage engineering students to become cyber entrepreneurs in manufacturing and related software fields; successful ideas for physical products and software apps will be commercialized. Assistance will be provided to students to create new enterprises or startups. The project involves multiple disciplines and targets both undergraduate and graduate students in various engineering fields and computer science. The teaming activities will be accomplished in the context of engineering courses which will also introduce students to emerging practices and technologies and prepare them to become leaders in our IT intensive world.A collaboration community of interdisciplinary engineering students will be established who will interact through a Cyber-Manufacturing Test Bed which will take advantage of the current Internet and the Next Internet which is evolving. The Cyber-Manufacturing Test Bed will provide the foundation to create and support apps where such cyber collaborations will take place. The adoption of Open/shared, extensible architectures will enable potential distributed partners to discover and respond to opportunities in an agile manner. Technologies ranging from existing cloud based networks to emerging Next Generation GENI based smart networks will be explored to support this cyber community. The computing infrastructure will emphasize providing "on-demand" access to the collaborative software resources, where remote access protocols and simulation platforms play a vital role. With emerging software-defined computing (SDN) and networking solutions, it will be possible to deploy end-to-end information exchange services between various manufacturing enterprises (including small businesses), without the support of large network vendors and service providers. Thin-client methods will be adopted to access the cyber tools (in manufacturing, design, simulation, etc.) to ensure secure management of data intensive operations.