Towards Ubiquitous Production Systems and Enterprises

Author

Putnik, G. ; Cardeira, C. ; Leitão, P. ; Restivo, F. ; Santos, J. ; Sluga, A. ; Butala, P.

Author_Institution

Univ. do Minho, Braga

fYear

2007

fDate

4-7 June 2007

Firstpage

3203

Lastpage

3208

Abstract

In the evolvable manufacturing world we are moving towards systems made of small intelligent interacting units which make their own decisions independently from a centralized decision maker. System intelligence will be the collective intelligence resulting from a large number of individual decision, each one based on its local knowledge. in our paper we present the ubiquitous production systems and enterprises (UPSE) whose foundations can be found in two main scientific areas/disciplines, (1) ubiquitous computing systems and (2) virtual and networked enterprises and organizations. We present the concept and the underlying formal model as well as our positioning in the state of the art of similar concepts. Finally we present some ongoing experiments that will work as a testbed for the UPSE concept.

Keywords

manufacturing systems; organisational aspects; production engineering computing; ubiquitous computing; virtual enterprises; centralized decision maker; networked enterprises; organizations; ubiquitous computing systems; ubiquitous production systems; virtual enterprises; Assembly systems; Flexible manufacturing systems; Intelligent manufacturing systems; Pervasive computing; Physics computing; Production systems; Radio frequency; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Vigo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0754-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0755-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2007.4375128

Filename

4375128