In order to guide the application of cloud manufacturing, the current situation in our country about manufacture resource and capability in forging industry was analyzed. Based on which the “Cloud Manufacturing” was applied into forging industry. By combined with current situation of forging industry, the mode of forging cloud service was discussed as well as its characteristic. A fivelayered cloud services platform of system architecture was proposed for forging industry based on the mode of operation, and its flow of service process was analyzed. The above system architecture is of great significance to raise the utilization of manufacturing resources and capability, and to enhance the level of forging industry as a whole.