Cloud manufacturing resource planning and its coordination mechanism based on supply subchain
YI Lingling, TU Jianfei, LIANG Xiaoxing
(Faculty of Mechanical Engineering ＆ Mechanics, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China)
 

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that manufacturing resources or capacities are excess in some enterprises but insufficient in others, and to facilitate enterprises integrating manufacturing resources as well as planning and managing the available resources rationally, cloud manufacturing and the concept and structure model of cloud subchain and its evaluation method and construction process as well as the cloud subchains capacity calculation method were investigated, further the cloud manufacturing resource planning method based on subchain was proposed.  The mechanisms of project consulting, progress feedback, conflict resolving among different subchains were researched from the point of multidirectional cooperation. The methods of implementation and coordination of cloud manufacturing resource planning were presented.The results indicate that the applications of cloud subchain can account and plan the manufacturing resources more accurately and rationally, the coordination mechanisms among various levels cloud subchain provide theoretical and directional guidance for the implementation of the followup plans. Its feasible and advanced to plan and coordinate the overall cloud subchain manufacturing resources.
Key words: Cloud subchain; Cloud manufacturing resource planning; Plans coordination mechanism; Manufacturing resource management