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The following article deals with a novel approach to manufacturing in the context of the increasing
demand for system and process integration. This integration chiefly applies to concrete facets of manufacturing tasks, which must be taken into consideration in the stage of planning and preparation for complex production processes. Those facets are primarily exemplified by order types (such as production, service and cooperative commissions etc.), production models (e.g. discrete and process modeling) product categorization based on established criteria (e.g. production technology, complexity level, used materials and extras, weight, etc.) as well as many other aspects, which hold great significance in the automatization of manufacturing processes. When more advanced orders are to be realized, one of the main challenges that this situation poses is the need to accomplish multiple operations, which due to their different nature, scope and scale (e.g. varied processing types: heat and plastic treating, machining etc.) have to be conducted by different contractors. In order to address those key problems and reduce the negative impact of multimodality, the author proposes a manufacturingcloud (also known as cloud manufacturing), which is a variant of a groundbreaking, yet well-established concept — cloud computing. This paper presents the chief notions of this method created specifically with integratingmultimodal systems and production processes in mind.
The author also highlights key problems, which should be addressed before this solution can be used in practice.
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