A note on a fractal architecture for modelling and controlling flexible manufacturing systems

Self-evolution framework of manufacturing systems based on fractal organization

“…Autonomous goalformation In the context of manufacturing systems, the fractal concept is embodied in a 'factory within factory' and has various manifestations such as fractal factory (Warnecke, 1993), BFU model (Tirpak, Daniel, La Londe, & Davis, 1992), fractal layout (Montreuil, Venkatadri, & Rardin, 1999;Venkatadri, Rardin, & Montreuil, 1997), the fractal manufacturing system (FrMS) Ryu, Son, & Jung, 2003) and other fractal-like systems including the holonic manufacturing system (Van Brussel et al, 1998) and the bionic manufacturing system (Okino, 1993;Ueda, 1993). Being an organizational concept of a corporate entity, a fractal factory is characterized as an open and dynamic system which consists of quick and self-similar feedback loops (Sihn & Von Briel, 1997).…”

Enterprise modeling of a project-oriented fractal company for SMEs networking

“…However, with few exceptions the fractal company model has not been defined with enough details required for its implementation. An interesting application of the Warnecke's idea is a control architecture of a flexible manufacturing system where the fractal unit is constituted by five modules [13,29]. Also, in the ADRENALIN project [30] the fractal company principles are used to embed a process-oriented approach in modeling the supply chain dynamics, emphasizing self-similary, selfoptimization, self-organization in the information system design for enterprise integration.…”

r-FrMS: a relation-driven fractal organisation for distributed manufacturing systems

“…The characteristics of the fractal factory have been applied to various research interests including supply chain management (Noori and Lee 2000) and project-based enterprise modelling (Canavesio and Martinez 2007). BFU denotes a basic fractal unit composed of a set of subunits, each of which is another BFU (Tirpak et al 1992). Tirpak et al (1992) presented a fractal architecture for modelling and controlling a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) built from BFUs, wherein each BFU plays the role of a factory within a factory.…”

“…In the context of manufacturing systems, the fractal concept is embodied in a 'factory within factory' such as fractal factory (Warnecke 1993), BFU model (Tirpak et al 1992), fractal layout (Venkatadri et al 1997, Montreuil et al 1999, and other fractallike systems including the holonic manufacturing system (HMS) and the bionic manufacturing system (BMS).…”