@ARTICLE{balta2018tase, author={E. C. Balta and Y. Lin and K. Barton and D. M. Tilbury and Z. M. Mao}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering}, title={Production as a Service: A Digital Manufacturing Framework for Optimizing Utilization}, year={2018}, volume={15}, number={4}, pages={1483-1493}, keywords={cloud computing;data structures;flexible manufacturing systems;industrial property;optimisation;product development;service-oriented architecture;centralized framework;service-oriented architecture;intellectual property preserving framework;PaaS framework;geo-distributed manufacturers;digital manufacturing framework;flexible manufacturers;batch manufacturing;product fabrication;product development;Production as a Service framework;customized small batch production;Intelligent manufacturing systems;Optimization;Genetic algorithms;Feature extraction;Service-oriented architecture;Intellectual property;Manufacturing automation;Genetic algorithms;intellectual property;intelligent manufacturing systems;manufacturing automation;service-oriented systems engineering}, doi={10.1109/TASE.2018.2842690}, ISSN={1545-5955}, month={Oct},}