title: On architecting and composing engineering information services to enable smart manufacturing.
abstract: Engineering information systems play an important role in the current era of digitization of manufacturing, which is a key component to enable smart manufacturing. Traditionally, these engineering information systems spanned the lifecycle of a product by providing interoperability of software subsystems through a combination of open and proprietary exchange of data. But research and development efforts are underway to replace this paradigm with engineering informationservicesthat can be composed dynamically to meet changing needs in the operation of smart manufacturing systems. This paper describes the opportunities and challenges in architecting such engineering information services and composing them to enable smarter manufacturing.
authors.affiliation: Systems Integration Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8260, USA.
authors.forename: Boonserm Serm
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Kulvatunyou
authors.affiliation: Systems Integration Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8260, USA.
authors.forename: Nenad
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ivezic
authors.affiliation: Fellow ASME, Systems Integration Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8260, USA.
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Srinivasan