In this paper we will model a Manufacturing System by means of a Multi-Agent Systems, where each agent may represent a processing entity. This work has as objective to deal with the complex problem of Dynamic Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems. We want to prove that a good global solution for a scheduling problem may emerge from a community of machine agents solving locally their schedules and...

Nowadays, manufacturing organisations face increasing pressures from the frequent change in product type, continuous demand fluctuation and unexpected change in customer requirements. In order to survive in the turbulent environment, manufacturing organisations must become flexible and responsive to these dynamic changes in the business environment. This paper presents a hierarchical agent bidd...

Currently, the conventional manufacturing systems, such as the Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) are unable to adapt to the complexity and dynamic of the manufacturing environment. These systems activate the automatic operations by using the pre-instructed programs and should be stopped to re-program and re-plan in case of changes of the manufacturing environment, which reduce the flexibili...

Layout design and the flow of materials have a significant impact on performance of manufacturing system (garments industry) .These can help to increase productivity, reduce work in process and inventory, short production lead time, streamlines the flow of materials, cost and reduce non value added activities from the production process of waiting and transportation, which make the factory meet...

Increased reliance on agile manufacturing techniques has created a demand for systems to solve integrated process-planning and production-scheduling problems in lasge-scale dynamic environments. To be effective, these systems hould provide useroriented interactive functionality for managing the various user tasks and objectives and reacting to unexpected vents. This paper describes the mixed-in...