When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

The widespread use and continuous improvements of machine tools have had a significant
impact on productivity in manufacturing industry ever since the Industrial Revolution. At the …

Smart manufacturing refers to using advanced data analytics to complement physical
science for improving system performance and decision making. With the widespread …

Cloud manufacturing provides an interactive environment for collaboration between digital
twin-based manufacturing systems. However, access to the enterprise cloud by a significant …

Making manufacturing as on-demand cloud services is a transformative paradigm to achieve
the required business flexibility in the context of Industry 4.0 via enabling rapid configuration …

This study explores how performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), firm size (FS),
top management support (MS) and absorptive capacity (AC) of cloud computing technology …

Information technologies with their strong penetration can provide effective solutions for
addressing the challenges faced by the manufacturing industry. Leveraging information …

Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is a service oriented business model to share manufacturing
capabilities and resources on a cloud platform. Manufacturing is under pressure to achieve …

Abstract Cyber-Physical Machine Tools (CPMT) represent a new generation of machine
tools that are smarter, well connected, widely accessible, more adaptive and more …

Small-and medium-sized manufacturers, as well as large original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs), have faced an increasing need for the development of intelligent manufacturing …