Agent-based control of manufacturing processes

FABMAS: An Agent-Based System for Production Control of Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes

In this paper, we present results on designing the architecture of an agent-based system for production control of semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities (wafer fabs). These manufacturing systems are characterized by reentrant product flows, sequence dependant setup-times, inhomogenous parallel machines, a diverse product mix, a mix of different process types, prescribed due dates of the or...

Reactive agent mechanisms for scheduling manufacturing processes

This paper will present an agent based solution to control chemical processes in a manufacturing environment; items should undergo chemical reactions in different chemical baths to be processed by the system. Recipes for the processes only specify minimum and maximum times for each bath, and recipes depend strongly on characteristics of the item. We have applied the PACO paradigm for reactive a...

Performance of Time-Bound Negotiation in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control

Agent-based software technology plays an important role in the manufacturing industry for achieving agility. Shop floor control applications can be designed based on the paradigm of agent negotiation to cope with variabilities and disturbances in the production environment. This often involves the contract net protocol (CNP) and previous research has suggested that the timing parameters of CNP ...

Context-Based Orchestration for Control of Resource-Efficient Manufacturing Processes

The increasing competition between manufacturers, the shortening of innovation cycles and the growing importance of resource-efficient manufacturing demand a higher versatility of factory automation. Service-oriented approaches depict a promising possibility to realize new control architectures by encapsulating the functionality of mechatronic devices into services. An efficient discovery, cont...

Manufacturing Processes and Process Control