Cloud-Based Engineering Design and Manufacturing: A Survey

This paper presents a literature research and semi-structured web-based survey on what changes and concepts are needed and posed by the requirements and challenges in manufacturing, and how cloud computing may help to meet those requirements and realize them in manufacturing operations. In this contribution, we outline the primary discussed in the academia manufacturing paradigm, as well as we derive a number of business requirements this paradigm poses on the current manufacturing business model. With the help of empirical survey, we try then to identify whether new technology in the form of the cloud computing concept can help to change the way companies operate in the manufacturing industry and meet the requirements of a new manufacturing paradigm.