Multi-agent Mrp Class System for Production and Disassembling

Modern large companies have distributed infrastructure that brings some of new problems to be solved. Main typical tasks to be mastered are: distributed storage, transport, production planning, etc. To solve these problems, the companies base their decision procedures on integrated management systems. Such a solution makes all strategic decisions easier and more pertinent because all required information (history, statistics, current company state etc.) is easily available. Applications usually used by production companies are of MRP II or ERP class, and they almost always contain the closed-loop MRP class subsystem. To make production planning more e cient it is worthy to be well informed about the market for certain products and particularly about supplier's possibilities. Key procedures "to sell" and "to buy" (or to nd the proper cooperation) remain the domain of human work. To realize this tasks big companies create separate units, for such tasks only. High cost and low quality of realization of these very important tasks in contemporary market reality have important impact on the proper company functioning. Computer network and decentralized systems may put an alternative idea into reality. The paper is aimed at showing design process of a multi-agent management system. Special multiagent modules are proposed to include into MRP class integrated management system.