Containers for Deploying and Scaling Smart Manufacturing Services

Precision Engineering industry is the bedrock of Singapore’s manufacturing sector. PE ITM, refreshed in 202, remain committed to digitisation and automation through digital manufacturing paradigm. And, with demand from global and regional markets, manufactures are encouraged to embrace this transformation to stay relevant. Smart manufacturing and digital manufacturing involve the integration of advanced technologies into the manufacturing process to improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability. Microservices, a software architecture approach, helps in achieving these goals.
Microservices break down an application into smaller, independent services, each with its own set of functionalities and APIs. This architecture allows flexibility to work on individual components independently, making it easier to develop, test, deploy integrate advance I4.0 technologies. In addition, microservices architecture enables horizontal scaling, better fault tolerance and resilience than traditional monolithic architecture.
These benefits are further enhanced when coupled with containerisation technologies. In deploying microservices based solutions:
1. Containerisation provides portability and scalability efficient resource usage required for higher proliferation of the solutions, and
2. Container orchestration platforms provides ease of container management, high availability, fault tolerance, reliability and reliance needed by a real-world operation environment.
Overall, microservices and containerisation offer essential benefits that help manage and achieve dynamic nature of smart manufacturing.
Many manufacturers are small or medium enterprises who still heavily relies on monolithic software systems. This causes a great challenge in embracing technologies like cyber-physical production systems, machine-to-machine communication, or manufacturing execution and intelligence systems (MES).

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