Abstract

Cloud-based Design and Manufacturing refers to a new service-oriented product realization paradigm for the 21st century in the broader context of distributed and collaborative product development. CBDM fosters knowledge and resource sharing as well as highly efficient rapid product development with reduced cost through social networking and negotiation platforms that exist between service providers and consumers. A design and manufacturing cloud is a collaborative and distributed system consisting of a collection of interconnected physical and virtualized service pools of design and manufacturing resources, as well as associated search and retrieval capabilities. Cloud-based design and manufacturing systems are anticipated to become the backbone of future intelligent and semantics-based Web 3.0 applications for design and manufacturing in the broader context of Social Product Development.

The purpose of this book is to provide decision makers in industry, practicing engineers, researchers, and educators an overview of one of the most topical developments in the context of advanced design and manufacturing.