Research on Architecture of Manufacturing Grid for Application Service Provider Mode

Networked manufacturing is a trend of manufacturing industry and Application Service Provider (ASP) is its mainstream mode. In order to solve the current questions of networked manufacturing, grid technology was put forward as a feasible approach to reform the networked manufacturing system based on ASP; considering the characteristic of grid technology, a new design constructing manufacturing grid system for ASP mode was presented and then the application architecture and the technology architecture of this system were investigated intensively. Application architecture was composed of user layer, application service layer, grid middleware layer and grid resource layer, technology architecture was composed of fabric, connectivity, resource, collective and application and integrated Globus Toolkit with them. Finally, an application case was given. The research, development and implementation of manufacturing grid system for ASP mode provide a realizable solution for manufacturing industry. As a result, the competitive ability of enterprise would be promoted.