Manufacturing control systems are a mission-critical application domain for semantic agents systems. While multi-agent systems have been explored in the manufacturing systems domain, there is very little work on semantically enabled agent systems. This chapter introduces a layered architecture for manufacturing systems based on agent systems and discusses relevant capabilities of the semantic a...

In today's competitive market, all manufacturers attempt to improve their maintenance policy in order to decrease the cost of failure and increase the quality of products, but most of these attempts do not consider the role of humans involved in a manufacturing system. Human resources are the main factor in manufacturing that has an undeniable effect on products quality, machines reliability, s...

Complete List of Authors: Yang, Xiang; University of Kaiserslautern, Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems Malak, René; University of Kaiserslautern, Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems Lauer, Christian; University of Kaiserslautern, Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems Weidig, Christian; University of Kaiserslautern, In...

OF THE PHD THESIS Researches on the design and management of manufacturing systems Ciprian CRISTEA Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania The PhD thesis is being structured on seven chapters. Each one of them begins with a set of objectives and it ends with the conclusions. Chapter 1 makes an introduction in the problem of manufacturing and contains an evolution of the manufacturing conce...

The emergence of Cellular Manufacturing Systems has resulted in signific ant productivity improvement in manufacturing systems. The Cellular Manufacturing System has received wide attention and is well documented in the literature. This study demonstrates the use of Decision Support Systems (DSS) to cellular manufacturing.

A comprehensive review is given of recent research on developing Web-based manufacturing systems. First, the key issues in developing Web-based manufacturing systems, including collaboration among product development partners, data modelling, system architecture design, and security management, and researches to address these key issues are presented. Then various approaches of developing Web-b...

Presented in this article is a review of manufacturing techniques and introduction of reconfigurable manufacturing systems; a new paradigm in manufacturing which is designed for rapid adjustment of production capacity and functionality, in response to new market conditions. A definition of reconfigurable manufacturing systems is outlined and an overview of available manufacturing techniques, th...

In modern manufacturing systems, two developments are paramount: flexible automation computer systems controlling and monitoring the physical processes, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) direct data sharing among production control systems and the engineering and administrative systems that support them. The resulting data systems engineering task is to provide access from many system...

Cooperative Management has appeared as a promising paradigm on which Network and System Management (NSM) solutions should be partially or entirely based. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to obtain, from any CIM schemas, NSM frame-based ontologies which can then be used in cooperative management solutions.