Distributed production planning and control agent-based system

Distributed Production Planning and Control Agent Based System

A model of an Agent based Production Planning and Control (PPC) system able to be dynamically adaptable to local and distributed utilization of production resources and materials is presented. The PPC system is based on the selection of resources to deal with one order of different quantities of one product each time. In this way it is build one scheduling solution for that particular order. Th...

Distributed Production Planning through Multiple Agent System

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements afe forcing manufacturing enterprises to assume new production styles and configurations. Today, the agility has to concem not just operations and technology aspects but also organization: in this framework the concept of virtual organisation seems to be a new emerging paradigm to improve manufacturing firm competitiveness. Several r...

Multi-Agent-Based Production Planning and Control

Agent Based Production Planning

1 Agent based system is a collection of autonomous computational elements, independent programs (hereafter we will refer to these elements as agents) that perform collective behaviour in order to meet either their individual goals (selfinterested agents) or a in-community shared goal (collaborative agents) [7], [5]. They exchange information and knowledge in order to achieve desired instance of...

FIPA agent based network distributed control system

A control system with the capabilities to combine heterogeneous control systems or processes into a uniform homogeneous environment is discussed. This dynamically extensible system is an example of the software system at the agent level of abstraction. This level of abstraction considers agents as atomic entities that communicate to implement the funct ionality of the control system. Agents’ en...