Realizing dynamic manufacturing service provisioning mechanism in order commitment service

In this paper, a dynamic manufacturing service provisioning mechanism (DMSPM) is designed to flexibly create and execute manufacturing services under a virtual fab (VF) enabling framework. The DMSPM exploits object-oriented (OO) technology to flexibly bind fab objects into services. It consists of four skeleton steps: name mapping, business process binding, resource reservation binding, and service management binding. To assess the feasibility and potential of DMSPM, the order commitment service (OCS) provided by a foundry serves as a study case A prototype system is designed and implemented to realize DMSPM in the OCS application. The implementation demonstrated that current OO technology, CASE tools, fab information infrastructure and data/information availability make DMSPM readily realizable and that DMSPM has a good potential for application to virtual fab and e-business developments.