341 research outputs found
New Shop Floor Control Approaches for Virtual Enterprises
The virtual enterprise paradigm seems a fit response to face market instability and the volatile nature of business opportunities increasing enterprise’s interest in similar forms of networked organisations. The dynamic environment of a virtual enterprise requires that partners in the consortium own reconfigurable shop floors. This paper presents new approaches to shop floor control that meet the requirements of the new industrial paradigms and argues on work re-organization at shop floor level.virtual enterprise; networked organisations
A framework for distributed manufacturing applications
The new organisational structures used in world wide manufacturing systems require the development of distributed applications, which present solutions to their requirements. The work research in the distributed manufacturing control leads to emergent paradigms, such as Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) and Bionic Manufacturing Systems (BMS), which translates the concepts from social organisations and biological systems to the manufacturing world. This paper present a Framework for the development of distributed manufacturing applications, based in an agent-based architecture, which implements some Holonic and Bionic Manufacturing Systems concepts
An engineering framework for Service-Oriented Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
Nowadays fully integrated enterprises are being replaced by business networks in which each participant provides others with specialized services. As a result, the Service Oriented Manufacturing Systems emerges. These systems are complex and hard to engineer. The main source of complexity is the number of different technologies, standards, functions, protocols, and execution environments that must be integrated in order to realize them. This paper proposes a framework and associated engineering approach for assisting the system developers of Service Oriented Manufacturing Systems. The approach combines multi-agent system with Service Oriented Architectures for the development of intelligentautomation control and execution of manufacturing systems.Giret Boggino, AS.; Garcia Marques, ME.; Botti Navarro, VJ. (2016). An engineering framework for Service-Oriented Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Computers in Industry. 81:116-127. doi:10.1016/j.compind.2016.02.002S1161278
Design and implementation of a function block-based holonic control architecture for a new generation flexible manufacturing system
In this research work a control architecture which gives response to the
requirements of new generation of flexible manufacturing systems in terms
of flexibility, reconfigurability, robustness and autonomy is designed and
implemented. To do so the main principles of the Holonic Manufacturing
paradigm are applied using the IEC61499 function block (FB) technology.
Unlike other similar research proposals, in this work FBs are not relegated
to low-level control but are used to model manufacturing execution and
control high-level control tasks. This is done with the objective of
evaluating the viability of using FBs to develop holonic architectures in
comparison to more established technologies like multi-agent systems.
Moreover, the proposed control architecture also focuses on better
integrating and exploiting the products’ information to enhance its
flexibility and adaptability. For this STEP-NC (ISO14649) is used to model
richer process plans which include manufacturing alternatives and could be
easily integrated in the control itself
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