The Experiment Method for Manufacturing Grid Development on Single ComputerXIAO Youan ZHOU Zude (School of Information Engineering,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,ChinaIn this paper,an experiment method for the Manufacturing Grid application system development in the single personal computer environment is proposed.The characteristic of the proposed method is constructing a full prototype Manufactur- ing Grid application system which is hosted on a single personal computer with the virtual machine technology.Firstly,it builds all the Manufacturing Grid physical resource nodes on an abstraction layer of a single personal computer with the virtual machine tech- nology.Secondly,all the virtual Manufacturing Grid resource nodes will be connected with virtual network and the application software will be deployed on each Manufacturing Grid nodes.Then,we can obtain a prototype Manufacturing Grid application system which is working in the single personal computer,and can carry on the experiment on this foundation.Compared with the known experiment methods for the Manufacturing Grid application system development,the proposed method has the advantages of the known methods,such as cost inexpensively,operation simple,and can get the confidence experiment result easily.The Manu- facturing Grid application system constructed with the proposed method has the high scalability,stability and reliability.It is can be migrated to the real application environment rapidly.manufacturing grid;;virtual system;;grid simulation