A Service-Oriented Cloud Application for a Collaborative Tool Management System

Current efforts in manufacturing and logistics research focus on developing innovative systems that enable enterprises to respond faster and more effective to changing market conditions, thus, paving the way for the fourth industrial revolution. Amongst others, an intensified collaboration within supply chains on the basis of virtualized processes is agreed to be a promising approach. Especially also in the area of industrial tool management there are numerous challenges regarding a horizontal integration. In this paper, a service-oriented and cloud based concept is presented that focuses on providing manufacturing oriented services, based on commonly accessible tool related data. It is illustrated how companies within a machining tool supply chain can benefit from highly available tool data and deployed services along a tool's life cycle.