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Cloud Manufacturing-A Boon for Manufacturing SMEs

Subramaniam Arunachalam*, 0**, Aloysius A. Edohis***

* Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Group, University of East London, UK.

** PhD Student, University of East London, UK.

*** Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, School of Architecture, Computing & Engineering, University of East London, UK.

Periodicity:January - June'2017
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jcc.4.1.13755

Abstract

Automotive Manufacturing organizations constantly innovate to compete and sustain competitive advantage. In the past couple of decades, the manufacturing industry has been using management strategies and practices like Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Agile Manufacturing, and Just-in-Time. However, in the recent times, cloud computing has begun to make waves in the manufacturing environment, to improve the efficiency of the manufacturing business processes. This paper discusses advantages of the new manufacturing model called 'Cloud Manufacturing' and analyses its benefits for the SMEs s to achieve reliable, economic manufacturing resources at lower cost, and thereby provide a fast, high quality, and low cost product manufacture.

Keywords

Cloud Manufacturing, SMEs, Manufacturing.

How to Cite this Article?

Arunachalam. S., Xavier. R. S. F. K., and Aloysius A. Edohis (2017). Cloud Manufacturing-A Boon for Manufacturing SMEs. i-manager's Journal on Cloud Computing, 4(1), 23-27. https://doi.org/10.26634/jcc.4.1.13755

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