Agent-based manufacturing — review and expert evaluation

Agent Based Manufacturing

Agent based manufacturing is an important area from a research and implementation points of view. In the past decade agent based manufacturing has become popular and many applications are built. In this keynote paper we survey the field with special emphasis on The International Institution of Production Research’s activities in this area. The original extended paper is referenced at the end of...

Agent-based Simulation for Composite Manufacturing Technology Evaluation

With increasing demand for lightweight composite airplanes, advanced composite manufacturing techniques are being developed to deliver more airplanes quickly, with increased quality and decreased costs. These advanced techniques require production readiness evaluations as part of airplane development programs. Manufacturing techniques must be evaluated for cost, rate capability, and quality, am...

Agent-Based Systems for Manufacturing

The emerging paradigm of agent-based computation has revolutionized the building of intelligent and decentralized systems. The new technologies met well the requirements in all domains of manufacturing where problems of uncertainty and temporal dynamics, information sharing and distributed operation, or coordination and cooperation of autonomous entities had to be tackled. In the paper software...

Multi-Agent Based Distributed Manufacturing

Agent Based Simulation of Sale and Manufacturing Agents Acting Across a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Agent based modeling and simulation consider the behavior of agents acting in a system. The agents' interactions result in changing the agent’s behavior, the whole agent based system, and its environment. In this study, the manufacturing, sale, and receiving orders behaviors pertinent to manufacturing and sale agents acting across a pharmaceutical supply chain of an Iranian manufacturing medici...