Cloud manufacturing: latest advancements and future trends

Cloud manufacturing as a new manufacturing paradigm has been attracted a large amount of research interest. More than eight hundred papers have been published on cloud manufacturing. Several review articles have been published, and the latest paper that presented the overall research status of cloud manufacturing was published online in April 2015. However, during the past more than two years, many new papers have been published. In order to speed up research on cloud manufacturing and provide insights to future research, this paper presents the latest research advancements of cloud manufacturing and identifies future trends in this particular area.