A Simulation Method to Evaluate Manufacturing Service in Cloud Manufacturing

Abstract

Since the globalization of manufacturing, the manufacturing has been a rapid development and emerges many new developed manufacturing modes such as Cloud Manufacturing (CM), while meets more complex manufacturing problems at the same time. For example, evaluation of service is a key for the transaction process of CM service. Thus, this paper introduces a simulation method to evaluate manufacturing service. Firstly, the research status of CM service evaluation was discussed. Then, the mapping relationship between manufacturing service and simulation model was given out. After that, by modeling, unique evaluation indices for service consumers and providers were provided to make decisions. Lastly, an implementation case was given to verify the feasibility of the method.