Pull System Control For Job Shop Via A Holonic, Isoarchic & Multicriteria Approach

Faced to international competition, the industrial production requires increasingly implementation conditions. In certain cases, that forces to seek new techniques of workshop control. It is the case when it is asked to establish a Just in Time management in a Job Shop having the characteristic of working in small series. We present here a new approach for the organization of the ‘control’ function in such a context. This approach rests on the use of the holonic paradigm, on an isoarchic architecture and on a decision-making capacity based on a multicriteria analysis. Initially, we approach the various concepts related to this approach. Then, we detail the used multicriteria decision mechanisms as well as the implementation and instrumentation phases. The first obtained results are presented.