Emergent Synthesis Approaches to Control and Planning in Make to Order Manufacturing Environments

Ueda, Kanji; Lengyel, Attila; Hatono, Itsuo

doi:10.1016/s0007-8506(07)60722-7

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“…Work on emergent synthesis (e.g., [13]) was very relevant for the design of the starting point of the research in this paper. The contribution in this paper consists of making the emergent behavior more prescribable and, it is hoped, more predictable by reducing the functionality that needs to emerge.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Schedule execution in autonomic manufacturing execution systems

Valckenaers¹,

Brussel²,

Verstraete³

et al. 2007

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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a b s t r a c tThis paper discusses a manufacturing execution system (MES) that prefers and attempts to follow a given schedule. The MES performs this task in an autonomic manner, filling in missing details, providing alternatives for unfeasible assignments, handling auxiliary tasks, and so on. The paper presents the research challenge, depicts the MES design, and gives experimental results. The research contribution resides in the novel architecture in which the MES cooperates with schedulers without inheriting the limitations of the world model employed by the scheduler. The research forms a first development, and a list of further research is given.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Schedule execution in autonomic manufacturing execution systems

Valckenaers¹,

Brussel²,

Verstraete³

et al. 2007

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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“…In this system, all production elements can move freely on the production floor using self-organization in order to adapt to fluctuations such as the diversity of product demands and the malfunction of machines. The effectiveness and feasibility of this system is demonstrated by computer simulations and by a prototypical mini-factory consisting of small autonomous robots [100], [101], [102]. Simulation results demonstrated that the proposed model can achieve global objectives such as "maximise the throughput" and "minimise the due date deviation".…”

Section: Layout Designmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Ueda et al argued that real-time scheduling can be practically realised by augmenting the BMS with learning functions [98]. The BMS concept was also used for planning and control of make-toorder production to evaluate and control the range of time and cost constraints that the system is able to complete [102]. Latest work based on the BMS concept introduced bounded rational agents to improve the system performance ( Figure 9).…”

Section: Layout Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Autonomous Processes in Assembly Systems

2007

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Today's assembly systems have to be flexible to adapt quickly to an increasing number and variety of products and changing demand volume. To manage these dynamics, flexible, reconfigurable, and autonomous assembly systems were proposed and partly realised in the last two decades. The flexibility and adaptability is realised by clustering the assembly system into subsystems and modules which get a certain degree of autonomy and control themselves in a decentralised way. This keynote paper will present the general principles of autonomy and the proposed concepts, methods and technologies to realise autonomous processes in assembly systems. Different approaches for design and autonomous operation of assembly will be explained and future trends towards fully autonomous components of an assembly system as well as autonomous parts and products will be discussed.

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“…Product development, in the future, occurs not only within the company but also can be considered a collaborative process between the company and customer. As part of this development, centralized manufacturing systems are increasingly being replaced with decentralized production structures (Ueda et al, 2004). The vision of Open Innovation is that end users design and create their product using digital design and product development tools.…”

Section: Democratization Of Design and Open Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%