Cloud manufacturing is a new service-oriented intelligent manufacturing paradigm. Knowledge is a core part and the foundation to realize its intelligence. In this paper, the importance and functions of knowledge to cloud manufacturing was first investigated from the lifecycle of cloud service. Then a knowledge management system was designed and the layered architecture and key technologies were analyzed. A case study was conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed knowledge management system.

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