SOA Platform in Ubiquitous Factory Concept

A next generation concept of manufacturing environment called Ubiquitous Factory was proposed last year. This concept was introduced with the purpose of harmonious integration of people and machines for an environment where human creativity, expertise, and experience can exert influence on making more valuable accomplishments with the aid of ubiquitous information technologies. Ubiquitous Factory concept can be defined as a collection of u-Services (Ubiquitous Services) where each u-Service serves a specific purpose in building Ubiquitous Factory and is designed by integrating ubiquitous information technologies to serve the purpose. As various u-Services emerge and as these u-Services contain elements of ubiquitous information technologies where various forms and large quantities of data has to be sent and received, the need for efficient development of u-services, efficient handling of large amount of data transfer and reducing the effort of software development have emerged. In this paper, I propose a concept of Service- Oriented-Architecture in the view of Ubiquitous Factory concept in order to handle the emerging needs mentioned above.