ISSN: 1985-3157 Vol. 12 No. 1 January - June 2018 A Review of Cloud Manufacturing: Issues and Opportunities 61 A REVIEW OF CLOUD MANUFACTURING: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES M.N. Abd Rahman¹, B. Medjahed², E. Orady³, M.R. Muhamad⁴, R. Abdullah⁵ and A.S.M. Jaya⁶ ¹,⁴Fakulti Kejuruteraan Pembuatan, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, Melaka, Malaysia. ²Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA. ³Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA. ⁵Fakulti Teknologi Kejuruteraan, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, Melaka, Malaysia. ⁶Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat & Komunikasi, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, Melaka, Malaysia. Corresponding Author’s Email: ¹mdnizam@utem.edu.my Article History: Received 4 May 2017; Revised 5 October 2017; Accepted 16 May 2018 ABSTRACT: Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is the latest manufacturing paradigm that enables manufacturing to be looked upon as a service industry. The aim is to ofer manufacturing as a service so that an individual or organization is willing to manufacture products and utilize this service without having to make capital investment. However, industry adoption of CM paradigm is still limited. This paper compared the current adoption of CM by the industry with the ideal CM environment. The gaps between the two were identifed and related research topics were reviewed. This paper also outlined research areas to be pursued to facilitate CM adoption by the manufacturing industry. This will also improve manufacturing resource utilization efciencies not only within an organization but globally. At the end, the cost benefts will be passed down to end customer. KEYWORDS: Cloud Manufacturing; Industry 4.0; Manufacturing Paradigms; Cloud Computing; Evolution of Manufacturing System 1.0 INTRODUCTION Recent development in the area of manufacturing model focuses on two signifcant concepts namely Industry 4.0 and Cloud Manufacturing (CM). Industry 4.0 scopes consist of both vertical and horizontal integration of manufacturing activities whereas CM focuses on the brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka: UTeM Open Journal System