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Abstract In the Industrial Internet or cloud manufacturing platforms, companies should actively respond to customized manufacturing requirements, which means that the intelligent utilization of manufacturing resources and adaptive adjustment of production processes should be realized in smart factories. However, related research at home and abroad rarely pays attention to the support of factory model for flexible manufacturing processes. In this scenario, based on the connotation of fractal theory, this study proposes a reference architecture, abstracting the functions and structures of manufacturing resources of different scales into resource fractals(RFs) with the nature of CPS (cyber physical system), and transforming the manufacturing requirements into reconfigurable rules to organize fractals, which ultimately achieves customized production process. In addition, the effectiveness of the proposed smart factory modelling reference architecture is verified by a case study of the manufacturing process of a cylinder product.