A system solution for integration of process planning and control in flexible manufacturing

Abstract

Presents a proposal of computer integrated production planning and shopfloor control in a modular robot served flexible manufacturing cell. The manufacturing functions involving scheduling, despatching and monitoring are integrated and mapped onto the multi-level system architecture. Discusses functions of the system software modules, principles of communication between them and the technical requirements imposed on the system. Introduces simulation modelling tools based on the Petri net formalism to support the user in developing schedule solutions and estimating the overall manufacturing performance of the specific cell.

Modeling and Simulation of Tool Cycle in Manufacturing Cell

“…It becomes necessary to consider the problems in integrative manner, while exploring total operational issues of a system. This seems to be particularly of value when pursuing global system optimization [2,4,10]. As these planning and control tasks, considered especially in the flexible manufacturing system environment, belong to the NP-hard class the use of algorithmic methods based on heuristic approach and coupled with the interactive computer simulation is the most appropriate means to enable the detailed system analysis [1,2,9].…”

Agent‐based architecture for manufacturing system control

“…Since the advent of computers, the rapid progress of computer applications in manufacturing has been focused on achieving autonomous control (Barber, 1999;Huang and Nof, 2000), distributed control (Yeung and Moore, 1995;Hiroki et al, 2000), intelligent manufacturing (Sobolewski, 1996), conceptual and system integration of the manufacturing system (Siemiatkowski and Przybylski, 1997;Harish and Peihua, 1997;Gong and Hsieh, 1997), fast response to the external environment and adaptability to changes in the manufacturing system.…”