文摘
Manufacturing software services provisioned as unbundled “apps” could be significantly more flexible and less expensive to use than the current monolithic manufacturing applications. However, integrating such heterogeneous apps is not a trivial job. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has initiated a research and development program to advance science and engineering towards the vision of composable Smart Manufacturing systems. In April 2016, NIST hosted a workshop, called Drilling down on Smart Manufacturing – Enabling Composable Apps, to work with industry and academia on needed technical and standards-based solutions. This paper reports on key outcomes of this workshop.