A collaborative and integrated platform to support distributed manufacturing system using a service-oriented approach based on cloud computing paradigm

► Today's manufacturing enterprises struggle to adopt cost-effective manufacturing systems. ► Distributed manufacturing collaboration and data integrity are essential in global manufacturing success. ► One of the successful solutions for manufacturing data integrity is to use ISO 10303 (STEP) standard. ► Adopting STEP standard, there are antonym effects of integration and collaboration capabilities. ► This paper proposes an integrated and collaborative platform called XMLAYMOD for distributed manufacturing agents based on cloud computing paradigm.