Reliability aznalysis for Manufacturing Grid

Abstract

Manufacturing Grid (MG) emerges as a new manufacturing model to provide a general platform for networked-manufacturing. The reliability is a significant and complex issue in MG system as resources in it are geographically distributed, heterogeneous and information dynamic in nature, owned by different enterprises or organizations with their own policies. In order to make MG work efficiently, the reliability for MG had been analyzed; a hierarchical evaluation model was proposed. In the end, the use of the model was also presented in system recovery policies. © 2006 International Federation for Information Processing.