Nimbis in partnership with UCLA and Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will provide an open workflow environment that supports the sequential execution of 3rd party APPS using net-worked information based modeling and data analytic technologies to integrate manufacturing intelligence across an entire manufacturing ecosystem. The SMWE leverages Nimbis commercial cloud technical analysis marketplace APP hosting infrastructure but now extending it to support multi-dimensional smart manufacturing modeling and real-time data driven process workflows that orchestrates the use of 3rd party supplied APPS and ISV application software providing management alternatives in the right context, at the right time, to the right user to optimize a plant operation.