An RFID-enabled CEP model for cloud manufacturing shopfloor

Cloud manufacturing is a new manufacturing paradigm developed from existing advanced manufacturing models and enterprise information technologies under the support of Internet of Things (IoT) such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. This paper presents an RFID-enabled Complex Event Processing (CEP) model for the Cloud manufacturing shopfloor by defining the basic and complex event to describe the typical operations and behaviors in the Cloud manufacturing environment. Firstly, RFID technology is used for creating the Cloud manufacturing shopfloors where typical events could be presented by CEP. Secondly, by defining different events, this paper categorizes various management such as workers, materials etc, so that the CEP model could be used for demonstrating various typical production logic. Two demonstrative cases are given in this paper for displaying the implementation of the proposed model in an RFID-enabled Cloud manufacturing shopfloor.