Service-Oriented Feature-Based Data Exchange for Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing

TLDR

Service‑oriented computing, cloud computing, and web services have driven the emergence of cloud‑based design and manufacturing (CBDM) as a state‑of‑the‑art approach for collaborative product development, offering cost‑effective, flexible, and scalable solutions through shared resources and addressing the long‑standing challenge of feature‑based data exchange. This paper proposes a service‑oriented architecture that registers feature‑based data exchange (FBDE) as a service and introduces a peer‑to‑peer (P2P) FBDE‑as‑a‑Service model to replace traditional centralized, file‑based data exchange among heterogeneous CAD systems. The authors detail the construction and operation of the P2P FBDE service, including pre‑P2P service provisioning, topological entity matching, and procedural steps, and validate the approach with a case study demonstrating its feasibility in CBDM.

Abstract

With the rapid development of service-oriented computing (SOC)/service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing and web services, cloud-based design and manufacture (CBDM) is emerging as state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies to enable collaborative product development (CPD). CBDM-enabled CPD can provide cost-effective, flexible and scalable solutions to collaborative partners by sharing the resources in the applications of design and manufacturing. Feature-based data exchange (FBDE) has been one of the key issues in history of CPD and should be adapted in lasted CBDM-enabled CPD. Firstly this paper presents a service-oriented architecture for data exchange in CBDM. Within this architecture, FBDE was registered as service and FBDE users in the CBDM environment can acquire a set of FBDE services to replace the traditional FBDE functions among heterogeneous CAD systems. Secondly, in orderto put the philosophy of FBDE-as-a-Service into practice for CBDM, this paper proposes a peerto peer (P2P) approach for service-oriented FBDE, which revolutionizes the traditional centralized and neutral-file based approach. Thirdly, technique issues of FBDE-as-a-Service in P2P architecture are discussed in details, including constituting of the P2P FBDE service, procedure of service-oriented P2P FBDE, pre-P2P FBDE service, topological entity matching between pre/post-P2P service and post-P2P FBDE service. Finally, a case study of data exchange is tested to demonstrate the proposed idea of service-oriented FBDE for CBDM.