Global economy is driving manufacturing companies into a paradigm
revolution. Highly customizable products at lower prices and with higher quality
are among the most imposed influence factors. To respond properly to these external
and internal constraints, such as work absence and machine failures, companies
must be in a constant adaptation phase. Several manufacturing control architectures
have been proposed throughout the years displaying more or less success
to adapt into different manufacturing situations. These architectures follow
different design paradigms but recently the decentralization and distribution of
the processing power into a set of cooperating and collaborative entities is becoming
the trend. Despite of the effort spent, there is still the need to empower
those architectures with evolutionary capabilities and self-organization mechanisms
to enable the constant adaption to disturbances. This paper presents a behavioural
mechanism embed in the ADACOR2 holons. A validation procedure
for this mechanism is also presented and results extracted. This validation is
achieved through the use of a benchmark and results are compared with classical
hierarchical and heterarchical architectures as also with the ADACOR.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
