The manufacturer selection is an important part of cloud manufacturing service, which is related to the manufacturing cloud whether or not can complete the service of demand side. Cloud manufacturing platform integrates a large number of enterprises to form a manufacturer library, which has the manufacturing capability and manufacturing resources that cannot be compared by the normal environment. Thus, the manufacturer selection has become a hot focus of many studies in subjects.Aimed atfeatures and advantages of manufacturers in a cloud environment, the domestic and foreign relevant studies status were summed, including the construction of the manufacturer selection system, modeling and intelligent agent system,and etc. A number of problems existed in current studies were concluded, and the development trend of manufacturers selection was expected, which provide a reference for the direction of future studies in manufacturers selection.