... equipment failures (Koren and Shpitalni, 2010). Cloud manufacturing builds on a foundation of cloud computing. Cloud computing provides on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal managerial effort (Mell and Grance, 2011). Its key...

...Yongyi Shou; Xinyu Zhao; Lujie Chen Purpose Cloud computing is a major enabling technology for Industry 4.0 and the Big Data era. However, cloud-based firms, who establish their businesses on cloud platforms, have received scant attention in the extant operations management (OM) literature...