Performance of a manufacturing system using a token-passing communication network

Author

Ammar, Mostafa H. ; Chung, Koo-Don

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

27-31 March 1988

Firstpage

496

Lastpage

504

Abstract

The authors consider a flexible and automated two-stage manufacturing system that is externally controlled by computer-based equipment. Communication among the components of this integrated manufacturing system is accomplished over a local area network using a token-passing medium access procedure. Messages from the manufacturing system to the control computers may contain information about the progress of the manufacturing process. Based on this data, the control computers send instructions that serve to control and modify the manufacturing process. A model of such a system is formulated and analyzed, and a set of numerical examples is discussed. The objective is to understand how the efficiency of the manufacturing system is affected by the mechanism and parameters of the communication network.<>

Keywords

flexible manufacturing systems; local area networks; performance evaluation; automated two-stage manufacturing system; flexible manufacturing system; local area network; token-passing communication network; Automatic control; Communication networks; Communication system control; Computer aided instruction; Computer aided manufacturing; Control systems; Integrated manufacturing systems; Local area networks; Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '88. Networks: Evolution or Revolution, Proceedings. Seventh Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communcations Societies, IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0833-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1988.12956

Filename

12956