Opportunities to apply manufacturing systems analysis techniques in genetic manufacturing systems

Manufacturing resources coordination organisation and tasks allocation approach inspired by the endocrine regulation principle

“…Therefore, based on these similarities between the manufacturing system and the biological organisms, many researchers have started to concentrate on some bionic intelligent manufacturing control approaches [30, 31]. In these studies about bionic manufacturing system, there are two typical research directions that one is mimicking the biological evolution method (just like gene) and the other is utilising the biology swarm intelligence to set up intelligent manufacturing control architecture [32–34]. Undoubtedly there are some valuable research results, but few related research studies have been done on manufacturing coordination mechanism between resources and tasks based on the endocrine‐inspired idea.…”