...Ming K. Lim; Weiqing Xiong; Chao Wang Purpose In the last decade, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has attracted considerable attention from academia and industry worldwide. It is widely accepted that the design and analysis of cloud manufacturing architecture (CMfg-A) are the basis for developing...

... perspectives, these reviews are not fully systematic or well justified and fail to fully reveal the key characteristics in the development process of CMfg. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the relevant research on CMfg via identification of key characteristics of definition, architecture...

.... On completion of the job, he traced the reason for the rush to one individual's desire to increase his promotion chances by being seen to be ahead of the pack. When we questioned how such a factor could overrule architectural considerations, he suggested that it was an example of the times we live in. "Some...