CE2014

From the global financial crisis of 2008, the world has learned how important it is to build a sustainable economy. Developed countries like the US and the European Union have since established new strategies to reinforce manufacturing as an important pillar of their economy. The new manufacturing strategies, much different from before, are featured with most advanced information and communication technology such as digitalization, ubiquitous intelligence, total connectivity, cloud computing and service-oriented architecture. In addition, 3D printing, openness and crowd sourcing, social network, mobile technology and many others have stimulated the on-going manufacturing evolution. With these enabling technologies, the lifecycle of products, from conception, design, production, sales, usage, all the way to recycling can be carried out in the form of cloud services, which is capable of utilizing the most appropriate resources from the globalized and dynamic world. To implement this novel manufacturing strategy, infrastructure, resource optimization, system coordination, business models and other fundamental issues need to be addressed in great depth. In this conference, key topics permeated to this main theme--- Moving Integrated Product Development to Service Clouds in Global Economy ---will be exchanged and explored.