Title: Cloud manufacturing developments: a review

Authors: Mikateko Nonceba Baloyi; Khumbulani Mpofu; Olukorede Tijani Adenuga; Rumbidzai Muvunzi; Boitumelo Innocent Ramatsetse

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering:, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa ' Department of Industrial Engineering:, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa ' Department of Industrial Engineering:, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa ' Department of Industrial Engineering:, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa ' Department of Educational Information and Engineering Technology (EDIET), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Abstract: Many scholarly articles have presented meaningful research on cloud manufacturing (CM), but over the past years, new paradigms of CM have emerged. This has brought diverse and interesting developments. The study presents the growth, developments and latest changes in literature in the past 11 years. The reviewed papers were based on the Scopus database (Elsevier springer, SAGE, Emerald, Francis, IJIMS and Wiley). Results on the first dimension show the number of publications between 2010 and 2021 covering 145 to 5,307 journal papers. According to the outcomes on the second dimension based on origin publications related to origin, China has 46% CM research publications. The third dimension focused on CM journal publications in IEEE Access as the most publication. The fourth dimension shows CM growth over the years. The significance of the findings is in the interest of CM as being evident that research is growing from concept to realisation.

Keywords: cloud manufacturing definitions; radical manufacturing; key technologies; application cloud manufacturing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIMS.2023.129284

International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services, 2023 Vol.9 No.1, pp.1 - 15

Received: 09 Nov 2021
Accepted: 04 Apr 2022
Published online: 03 Mar 2023 *