This paper presents an overview of a neutral reference architecture for integrating distributed manufacturing simulation systems with each other, with other manufacturing software applications, and with manufacturing data repositories. Other manufacturing software applications include, but are not limited to systems used to: 1) design products, 2) specify processes, 3) engineer manufacturing sy...

Manufacturing produces real wealth for any country and constitutes the back bone for the service sector. The objective of any organization is to earn profit. Usually the market fixes the selling price of the manufactured components. Unless there is focus on the manufacturing strategy of reducing manufacturing cost, it is very difficult to sustain in this ever competitive world. A suitable manuf...

The paper presents some considerations and a concept regarding on using of distributed intelligent agents in holonic control of adaptive manufacturing systems perspective. Unlike the classical manufacturing control systems, holonic manufacturing control systems provide a high agility and adaptability to the environment changes, and robustness against the occurrence of disturbances, bringing the...

The global development of the world has an adverse affect on the natural environment, such as global warming, is continuing to mount. Green manufacturing systems that focus on minimizing environmental impact of manufacturing processes and products are ever more important to sustain our future. Green manufacturing systems are slow to gain acceptance as manufacturers are focusing more on implemen...

Re-entrant manufacturing systems differ from traditional manufacturing systems in the sense that a job may visit a service station more than once, at various stages of the product development cycle. Several parts at different stages of processing may be in contention for service at the same machine, which gives rise to the need to solve scheduling problems. This document surveys some of the fac...

This paper proposes a new integrative view of manufacturing cell formation and both inter-cell and intra-cell layout problems. Cells formation and their popular bi-directional linear layout are determined simultaneously through a Dynamic Programming algorithm (with the objective of minimizing the inter-cell flow cost under a cell size constraint). This Dynamic Programming algorithm is implement...