Extending ANEMONA with NDT phases

A reliable maintenance system is critical to maintain an acceptable level of profit and competition. One of those techniques that are gaining a lot of interest in the manufacturing field is Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). In this work we propose an approach to integrate NDT into the development process of intelligent manufacturing systems. We propose an extension of ANEMONA, a multi-agent based method for engineering intelligent manufacturing systems, in order to integrate and take into account NDT for maintenance during the development process. With the proposed approach the intelligent manufacturing system is developed specifying all its constituent entities in terms of intelligent behavior and cooperation interactions, together with the activation planning of NDT maintenance activities for all the resource agents of the system that requires it. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the International Scientific Committee of the "2 nd International Through-life Engineering Services Conference" and the Programme Chair – Ashutosh Tiwari.