A framework for implementing social manufacturing system based on customized community space configuration and organization

As the production mode evolves, social manufacturing has emerged for enterprises to outsource non-core production tasks, make full use of the distributed socialized manufacturing resources and get value-added services. A social manufacturing system was proposed to configure customized community space (CCS) of an enterprise, organize CCS into manufacturing community and search for best partners for the enterprise. The framework of the proposed system is given. Correspondingly, three key enabling technologies are discussed to support the implementation of the system, that is, socialized manufacturing resources (SMRs) configuration, social manufacturing community (SMC) organization and collaboration and manufacturing outsourcing service (MOS) searching and matching. Finally, the conclusions are drawn and the future work of research in this area is given.