The global manufacturing development faces the new challenges including waste of resources, short delivery time, labor cost increase, short of labor, etc.. As a result, the overall industry environment of plastic materials manufacturing turns to focus on automatic production that enables manufacturing industry entering into the next phase so that production efficiency, man-made errors, and labor shortage can be improved. In this study, a cloud based platform of knowledge-driven manufacturing

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... tem integrates science bases and practical experience of injection molding with remote control technology that can enhance traditional production efficiency in several aspects such as production guidance in design/tooling/molding phases, production scheduling for all working members and equipment and processing monitoring via internet. More important is that during each working stage, sufficient knowledge are provided and guiding/driving the design/manufacturing work. The new knowledge/data are accumulated, preserved, reused. The system has been test in Jabil Green Point and Techmation, the efficiency is more than 50% improvement as compared with traditional human operation.