Distributed Manufacturing Systems with Digital Agent

Agent-Based Synthesis of Distributed Controllers for Discrete Manufacturing Systems

A method for designing real-time distributed controllers of discrete manufacturing systems is presented. The approach held is agent based; the controller strategy is distributed into several interacting agents that operate each one on a part of the manufacturing process; these agents may be distributed into several interconnected processors. The proposed method consists of a modelling methodolo...

A coordination strategy for distributed multi-agent manufacturing systems

This paper proposes a distributed multi-agent approach for dynamic part routing in automated manufacturing systems. In particular, each part in the system is associated to an intelligent software agent that must select its next destination autonomously (i.e. ignoring the actions of the other agents) and in real time (i.e. at each time it completes an operation on a workstation). Differently fro...

Multi-Agent Based Distributed Manufacturing

Modeling Distributed Manufacturing Systems

Starting from the classical centralized approach that we sketch rst, we describe some of the main concepts that are common to most models of multi-agent systems and propose some main requirements that should be respected when designing such systems. Then we give some examples where such concepts have already been used in test implementations, while trying to cover a wide spectrum of concepts us...

An Agent-Based Manufacturing Enterprise Infrastructure for Distributed Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing enterprises are now moving towards open architectures for integrating their activities with those of their suppliers, customers and partners within wide supply chain networks. Agent-based technology provides a natural way to design and implement such environments. This paper presents an agent-based manufacturing enterprise infrastructure. After a brief review of recent advancement...