Deploying On Demand Cloud Services to Support Processes in Robotic Applications and Manufacturing Control Systems

Abstract

Companies try nowadays to get the most technological advantages in order to be successful on the market. One of the tools they use is cloud computing; many companies are not only using a cloud infrastructure or service but more, it is estimated that until 2021 more than 90% of the companies will use multi-cloud systems and services (that means more than 5 cloud systems or services). This trend is affecting also the manufacturing companies; the challenge in this context is to manage these complex systems and services. The cloud systems and services are public, private or hybrid being offered by different providers: IBM, RedHat, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and so on. The paper presents a comparison for two cloud solutions which offer services for robotics and manufacturing. The paper also discusses the term cloud manufacturing and cloud robotics which many times is wrongly interpreted. Finally a solution for cloud robotics/manufacturing is proposed and tested for two variants of cloud solutions: using containers and virtual machines.