Trends in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Author

Christo, Camilo ; Cardeira, Carlos

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon

fYear

2007

fDate

4-7 June 2007

Firstpage

3209

Lastpage

3214

Abstract

A lot of changes in the manufacturing sector will occur in the future and it is important to transform the actual production systems to evolvable production systems. Fractal, bionic and holonic manufacturing systems are three concepts that have been proposed due their characteristics of flexibility and intelligence. This generation of manufacturing systems is known as intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS). Agent-based software is a technology that can make actions of control or supervision, endowing mechatronics devices with some intelligence. The use of multi-agent based software in operation and control of distributed systems is offering new distributed intelligent control functions (cooperation, planning, scheduling) over wired or wireless networked systems. In this paper, underlying principles of the construction of an IMS are concisely presented.

Keywords

distributed control; intelligent manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; production planning; scheduling; bionic manufacturing system; distributed intelligent control functions; fractal manufacturing system; holonic manufacturing system; intelligent manufacturing system; multiagent based software; planning; production system; scheduling; wired networked system; wireless networked system; Control systems; Distributed control; Fractals; Intelligent agent; Intelligent control; Intelligent manufacturing systems; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing systems; Mechatronics; Production systems;

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.2007.4375129

Filename

4375129