Agent Oriented Construction of a Digital Factory for Validation of a Production Scenario

Matsuda, Michiko; Kashiwase, Keisuke; Sudo, Yasuhiro

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2012.07.021

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“…In case of large scale manufacturing systems, planning using multi agent for the autonomous decentralized assembly system is introduced with some advantages [10]. The structure of factory for agent module is described in hierarchical structure as shown in figure 1.…”

Section: B New Factory and New Process Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The structure of factory for agent module is described in hierarchical structure as shown in figure 1. In [11] the concept in [10] is tested through hypothetical problem-solving by building a virtual factory of automatic machines and workers. In [10,11] the authors used Artisoc which is a Japanese commercial multi agent simulator used by this paper to validate the multi agent autonomous assembly concept.…”

Section: B New Factory and New Process Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fig. 1 An example of virtual multi agent factory by Matsuda and Sudo [10] In [27] an agent based simulation for washing machine line is developed using NetLogo. By implantation of this tool many scenarios is tested to conclude and tune the system behavior.…”

Section: B New Factory and New Process Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agent based modeling in factory planning and process control

Negmeldin

Eltawil

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)

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Nowadays the need for autonomous distributed manufacturing systems is increasing. Due to the rapid change of technology and the need of more customer oriented products, manufacturing systems need to be more dynamic. In the past few years, Agent Based Modules (ABM) were introduced to optimize autonomous distributed systems as well as for process control. In this paper we review the literature addressing ABM in manufacturing strategy and dynamic process control between 2009 and 2015 to provide an up-to-date picture of the role of ABM to solve such problems and its efficiency as well as its future challenges.

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Section: B New Factory and New Process Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B New Factory and New Process Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agent based modeling in factory planning and process control

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Eltawil

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)

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“…[9][10][11]) in which production lines are modelled statically. Based on these result, authors proposed using multi agent technology to model factory elements statically and dynamically [12][13]. Moreover, it is proposed to construct a digital eco-factory using this agent based digital factory.…”

Section: A Digital Eco-factory As An It Support Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A minimum sub-process is a job which is executed on some resources. There are rules and methods such as methodology and optimized parameters for production line control, dispatching rules for scheduling and theory for machine allocations [8,13]. …”

Section: Fig 5 Activity Diagram For a Product Agentmentioning

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Digital Eco-factory as an IT Support Tool for Sustainable Manufacturing

Matsuda

Kimura

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract.A sustainable discrete manufacturing using a digital eco-factory as an IT tool has been proposed. In this paper, details of a digital eco-factory with construction methods are discussed. A digital eco-factory is a virtual factory and IT support platform on which a production scenario is examined from various viewpoints. When a digital eco-factory is used, environmental impact of the planned production scenario is examined in addition to productivity and manufacturability. A digital eco-factory is constructed on a digital factory. A digital factory is constructed on the virtual production line. Multi agent technologies can be applied to modelling an actual shop floor and its components. All components are configured as software agents. These agents are called "machine agents." Furthermore, manufactured products are also configured as software agents. These agents are called "product agents." In the digital eco-factory, there are three panels which have a user interface from each different viewpoint. The three panels are a plant panel, product panel and an environmental index panel. By using a digital eco-factory, a production system designer can do pre-assessment of the configuration of the production line and production scenario, and a factory equipment vender can show performance of his equipment.

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