A practical approach for test equipment perception and virtualization in cloud manufacturing

Abstract

As an advanced manufacturing paradigm, Cloud Manufacturing provides a new way to solve the problems in the testing process. In cloud manufacturing, resource perception and resource virtualization are the foundation of building an actual service platform. According to the characteristic of test equipment, a practical approach for test equipment perception and virtualization is proposed, which is based on cloud computing, Automatic Test Markup Language (ATML) description and data mapping. A test service platform prototype is given to validate the feasibility of this approach.