Competitiveness Based Adaptive Control of the Manufacturing System

In order to progress in the present-day complex and unpredictable environment, the company must feature abilities of quick response and favorably reposition itself on the market. Acquisition and preservation of this capacity is the most difficult step for companies as it involves many endogenous and exogenous factors and the process is continuous, dynamic and hardly predictable. In this context, three elements are highlighted by their relevance: competitiveness, the manufacturing system and the knowledge system. The system environment gives on-line data regarding undertaken actions which analyzed and correlated will generate the solutions to manufacturing system to obtain and increase the competitiveness. We define the competitiveness based strategic control of the manufacturing system as ability to perceive the environment, to take decision in time, as a result of the manufacturing system-market interaction, with no specific procedures. The manufacturing system environment provides on-line data on the actions undertaken which, properly analyzed and correlated, will further generate solutions in order to develop the control decision. This paper presents a method for competitiveness based adaptive control of the manufacturing systems with application in part machining process control. Key-Words: competitive management, manufacturing system, competitiveness, on-line learning, adaptive control, technical-economical characteristics of manufacturing system