Technical Interoperability for Machine Connectivity on the Shop Floor

Adapting HPM to B2M interoperability issues: Towards Interoperability between Business Management Level and Shop Floor Level

Enterprise-control system integration between business systems, workflow systems, manufacturing execution systems and shop-floor processcontrol systems remains a key issue for facilitating the deployment of plantwide information-control systems. Since years, increasing flexibility and efficiency of their systems has been the new challenge for modern manufacturing enterprises. Business process m...

Multiagent Systems for Shop Floor Arhitecture Management

Simulation Based Shop Floor Control

This paper presents an overview of simulation-based shop floor control. Much of the work described herein is based on research conducted in the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Lab at The Pennsylvania State University, the Texas A&M Computer Aided Manufacturing Lab (TAMCAM), Technion in Israel, and the University of Arizona CIM lab over the past decade. In this approach, a discrete event...

Follow-Me: Smartwatch Assistance on the Shop Floor

The growing complexity of manufacturing calls for new approaches to support the human workforce with situation-aware information and tools which in consequence ease the process of understanding and applying work related knowledge. With this paper we introduce a theoretical model for a systematic information transfer between assistance system and worker. It defines assistance objectives and revi...

Framework for the Performance Assessment of Shop-floor Control Systems

In this paper we discuss the concept and design criteria for a framework that facilitates the performance assessment of shop-floor control systems. Our basic concept includes a simulation model that emulates the shop-floor of a wafer fab, sends information to the control system, and receives information back from the control system. The shop-floor control system is realized as a separate module...