In order to overcome the challenge confronted with by the current Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg for short) mode due to adopting the closed and non-normalized manner for managing aggregated manufacturing services, this paper proposes to create the Social-level Norm-Governed Open Marketized CMfg model, called SNGOM-CMfg, which aims at replacing the CMfg service platforms with the public-welfare manufacturing cloud market for supporting Collaborative Manufacturing (CoM for short), and therefore making

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... the formation and running of CoM transformed completely into being dominated by service consumers and managed and controlled jointly by consumers and providers. By integrating the technologies of norm-based macro-governance, market CoM assistance and supervision, and rational agents conforming to norms, this model can remove the uncontrollability obstacle confronted with by cross-management-domain CoM activities, and support the controllable implementation of CoM effectively.