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Author(s): Paulo Leitão
Francisco José de Oliveira Restivo
Title: Agent based holonic production control
Issue Date: 2002
Abstract: The manufacturing system environment is typically a complex system, involving many variables and constraints being in certain cases a chaotic system. The introduction of new paradigms to face globalisation, distribution of activities and customer satisfaction requirements, increases the problem complexity. The new manufacturing control approaches should support the agile adaptation to volatile technological and economical environments and should react dynamically and quickly to disturbances. This paper intends to introduce an agent-based approach to the manufacturing problem, that uses holonic concepts, is focused on distributed manufacturing shop floor control for discrete batch production, considers the optimisation of set-up and maintenance operations, and develops mechanisms for agile and fast reaction to disturbances without compromising the global production optimisation.
Subject: Engenharia de controlo, Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática
Control engineering, Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
Scientific areas: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias::Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática
Engineering and technology::Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/25245
Source: 3rd International Workshop on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, em 13th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Document Type: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
Rights: restrictedAccess
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Appears in Collections:FEUP - Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional

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