Authors: Y L Luo, L Zhang, F Tao, Y Bao, L Ren
Manufacturing capability (MC) servilization is a key to realize on-demand use, dynamic collaborative work, and circulation of manufacturing resources and capability in the cloud manufacturing (CMfg) system. This paper emphasizes the servilization of simulation capability (SC), which is a very important kind of MC. According to task demands and characteristics of complex product?s simulation process, concepts and state of the art related to MC were systematically analyzed and summarized firstly in this paper, then a conceptual model of SC were presented, A application model of SC service life-cycle in CMfg system is proposed. Then the framework for simulation capability servilization is investigated, as well as several key issues involved in the servilization process such as elements of simulation capability, modeling and decriptiion of simulation capability, and so on. Finally, an application example analysis of SC was presented.