Information service of the resource node in a manufacturing grid environment

Manufacturing resource information management is the precondition for manufacturing grid (MG), which provides the foundation for harmonious sharing of the distributed manufacturing resources. Research on the information service of the resource node in an MG environment will build up a solid theoretical and technological fundament to realize a manufacturing grid platform. This paper mainly focuses on resource registration, expression, and encapsulation in the MG environment. Taking the embedded NC system as an example, this article offers expression of the manufacturing resource with XML, which avoids the misunderstanding of different formats. This article also realizes the resource encapsulation and deployment, as well as information publishing and issuing with the help of Java supporting tools.