A resource integration platform for manufacturing grid based on SOOA

Most of the manufacturing grid systems are built on Web services technology. Basically speaking, they lack of the ability to handle the dynamic nature of network and manufacturing resources due to the static nature of service protocol-oriented architecture (SPOA) which Web services are built on. Recently, service object-oriented architecture (SOOA) which is suitable for constructing reliable distributed systems on the unstable Internet evolves rapidly from SPOA. In this paper, a resource integration platform for manufacturing grid (RIP-MG) is designed and implemented based on SOOA. In RIP-MG, an open template model (OTM) for encapsulating manufacturing resources is proposed, by which various manufacturing resources can be encapsulated as grid services conveniently without the need of programming, and the services can be deployed and managed locally by RIP-MG in remote service hosts. RIP-MG has been applied successfully in a collaborative design platform of manufacturing grid.