Platform-Based Manufacturing Service Collaboration: A Supply-Demand Aware Adaptive Scheduling Mechanism

With the development of new-generated IT technologies and the launch of a series of industrial Internet of things platforms, service-oriented manufacturing is an inevitable trend of manufacturing industry. Therefore, the platform-based manufacturing service collaboration (MSC) becomes a recognized answer to the complex and personalized manufacturing demands. However, the changes in both supply and demand of the platform in its operation process are usually unpredictable. To cope with the scheduling problem on the platform-based MSC with the dynamic uncertainties of both supply and demand, an adaptive scheduling mechanism is explored in this article. In which, the real-time system state evaluation method considering supply and demand are designed, and a supply-demand aware rescheduling trigger judgement is proposed. Experimental results show the effectiveness and adaptiveness of the proposed mechanism, which also provides a reference for other MSC scheduling problems towards different dynamic situations.

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With the development of new-generated IT technologies and the launch of a series of industrial Internet of things platforms, service-oriented manufacturing has become an inevitable trend. Platform-based manufacturing service collaboration (MSC) is recognized as a solution for complex and personalized manufacturing demands. However, the changes in supply and demand on the platform are usually unpredictable. This article explores an adaptive scheduling mechanism to cope with the dynamic uncertainties of both supply and demand in platform-based MSC.