This paper presents a framework to support the full lifecycle of extended manufacturing enterprises developed in the scope of large trans-national European project.

In this research project, several emerging technologies were explored such as Cloud and SOA manufacturing and internet-of-things applied in complex distributed manufacturing environments.

The main result of the project was the framework presented in the paper was full demonstrated against several real manufacturing cases. One of those cases address the one-of-kind manufacturing environment and is described in the paper.

It is important to highlight that the framework addresses two main challenges in the deployment of an extended enterprise. The first challenge addresses the finding of the right set of partners to address a new business opportunity and the design of the underlying collaborative processes. The second one is mostly technical and stays on the integration of the legacy systems of the partners participating in the network so that cooperation can take place quickly and seamlessly.

To our best knowledge this is the first framework covering both technical and business challenges.