A Service-Oriented, Scalable Approach to Grid-Enabling of Manufacturing Resources

To meet the challenges of geographically and logically distributed development processes. Manufacturing resources have to be encapsulated into services. The paper presents an extensible resource encapsulation framework and provides an approach to grid-enable manufacturing resources following Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) specification which can make them offer their services and functionality in grid environment. The framework includes a Resource Container Factory Service and many Resource Container Instance Services. The same kinds of resources are deployed in one resource container instance. The encapsulation framework has many advantages such as extensible, plug-and-play deployment, automatic encapsulating and manageable. The paper presents the design principle of the resource encapsulation framework. One kind of resource container-resource container for legacy binary codes is introduced as an example in this paper, which can cast legacy binary codes into web services. At last, we give a use case to validate our method and put forward the future work.