Due to the ever-increasing computational capabilities and the increasing use of automated manufacturing, distributed large-scale, discrete-event manufacturing system controllers are being proposed and designed. Currently there is a large amount of research in the area of simulation of manufacturing systems, scheduling and some research in the control of automated manufacturing plants. Even inte...

The manufacturing sector has been facing major challenges as it undergoes revolutionary changes fuelled by new and sophisticated demands from customers, global competition, distribution of manufacturing and marketing activities, and technological advances. In order to address these challenges, manufacturing enterprises need to change the way they do business and adopt innovative organizational ...

This paper presents a model of fault-tolerant Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS), where each holon is a knowledge-based agent capable of solving distributed problems by applying production/assembly and information management services. Our multi-agent architecture provides robustness and distribution transparency within a shop-floor environment where unpredictable failures occur with machines, ...

One of the main progress directions of Applied Information Engineering is to develop profession-specific application systems. Integration demand of Production Information Engineering is more than 30 years old. Why need is there for integration? The birth and evolution of CIM-paradigm. Progress of the functional modelling of production enterprises. The CIM-OSA concept. The results of EAI techniq...

Today’s manufacturing plants are equipped with heterogeneous software systems for different types of tasks, both manufacturing operations and factory planning. On the operating level software systems are neither yet integrated and thus support separate tasks such as production monitoring, sequence planning, work piece identification, maintenance order management, worker information and others. ...

This paper demonstrates how MES can help meet the challenges of sustainable production in addition to conventional uses. The methodology for extending the scope of MES to achieve energy efficiency and other sustainability goals is explained using standardized practices and actual installations.

The emerging concept of smart manufacturing systems is defined in part by the introduction of new technologies that are promoting rapid and widespread information flow within the manufacturing system and surrounding its control. These systems can deliver unprecedented awareness, agility, productivity, and resilience within the production process by exploiting the ever-increasing availability of...

Development of production systems, presents new ways of manufacturing. Agent-based systems are of emerging interest in the specification and implementation of manufacturing systems. In this paper, we have simulated a manufacturing system to introduce the role of intelligent decision making in manufacturing. The main idea is to develop independent agents which would create a formation for produc...

Highly flexible manufacturing systems require continuous run-time (self-) optimization of processes with respect to diverse parameters, e.g., efficiency, availability, energy consumption etc. A promising approach for achieving (self-) optimization in manufacturing systems is the usage of the context sensitivity approach based on data streaming from high amount of sensors and other data sources....

Performance evaluation studies in manufacturing systems have traditionally considered models in which the arrival process and service process are time independent. Real-world manufacturing systems however, are subjected i o highly complex and usually tamedependent input workloads. This motivates the study of performance models of manufacturing systems under non-stationary conditions. In this pa...