Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.2007.4375128
