Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) provides a flexible architecture to the changes and uncertainties of the manufacturing conditions. HMS has developed to meet the needs of consumers who are adapted to the capability of the company. This paper explains holon and holonic manufacturing system, analyzing the needs of the manufacturing system at the upcoming conditions, summarizes the current deve...

Advanced robotic assembly systems are promising great benefits to the manufacturing sector, once shortcomings of current technologies overcome. One biggest obstacles introducing flexible is ability robots sense and perceive semi-structured or unstructured environment. This paper presents a cyber-physical system based framework cell that capable recognizing resources processes, on information fr...

The production scheduling process in manufacturing systems is a complex problem in which finding a suitable production scheduling can extremely increase the effectiveness of highly flexible production processes. Nevertheless, this high flexibility makes the production scheduling and acquisition of relevant data quite complicated. Therefore, there is a strong demand for a universal and flexible ...