Authors: Yifan Mai, Lin Zhang, Anrui Hu, Chenfei Lv, Fei Tao
This paper proposes a methodology for knowledge acquisition in cloud manufacturing (CMfg) system which refers to a new knowledge based manufacturing paradigm. In view of the practical needs, the proposed methodology is designed to be cross-domain. Non- automatic and semi-automatic knowledge acquisition methods were used with the assistant of the automatic one. Details over knowledge acquisition for CMfg were presented, as well as the proposed methodology. System architecture for the knowledge acquisition tool was also put forwards with analysis and illustration.