Are you tired of buying expensive IT equipment and complicated applications? Have you had enough of hardware and software that you constantly need to install, configure, test, run, protect and upgrade? Then cloud manufacturing is for you. Shut down your IT department and move your business to the cloud!

Cloud manufactoring is considered to be the next generation's production model.

Xi Wang at the Department of Production Engineering conduct research on the "cloud"

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On 11 June 2014, Professor Lihui Wang won the Best Organiser of Symposium and Sessions (BOSS) Award at ASME 2014 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference in Detroit, USA, for successfully organising a symposium on Challenges in Cloud Manufacturing.

The three-day symposium was co-organised with Professor Xun Xu of University of Auckland, New Zealand and Dr. Xiaoping Yang of Cummins, USA. The symposium also featured one industry panel discussing the challenges and opportunities of cloud manufacturing from the industrial perspective.

Among 22 symposia this year, Professor Wang’s symposium was chosen for the BOSS Award

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