Dear Colleagues,

As a service-oriented, networked, and intelligent manufacturing paradigm, cloud manufacturing maps are creating resources and capabilities for the cloud, using technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, service computing, and artificial intelligence. This forms a cyber-physical-human system with interactions between virtual worlds and reality, which enables cloud-based sharing, collaboration, and on-demand use of manufacturing resources and capabilities, and provides intelligent, efficient on-demand services over the full lifecycle of manufacturing.

Modeling and simulation (M&S) technology plays an irreplaceable role during the development of manufacturing systems. M&S has been widely applied in all phases of the whole product lifecycle, i.e., design, manufacturing, testing, sales, maintenance, and other phases. Cloud-based environments and technologies bring more opportunities and challenges for the development of M&S technology, in return, M&S provides a more powerful capability for cloud manufacturing to complete a high-quality manufacturing task.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Architecture, models, standards, and criteria for CMfg
• Cloud service management of manufacturing resources and capabilities
• M&S for manufacturing lifecycle in the cloud
• M&S as a service
• Cloud-edge collaborative manufacturing and simulation
• New generation IT (big data, AI, cyber-physical system, Internet of Things, blockchain, etc.) for manufacturing and simulation
• Model engineering for manufacturing
• Simulation optimization in CMfg
• Cloud-based M&S platform
• Modeling and simulation language for complex product lifecycle
• High-performance simulation and optimization
  

Prof. Dr. Lin Zhang
Dr. Yuanjun Laili
Guest Editors

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• Cloud manufacturing
• Modeling and simulation
• Complex product lifecycle