Title :
Dynamic assembly sequences-a multi-agent control system
Author :
Martinez, MicheI T. ; Campagne, Jean-Piewe ; Ghroud, S. ; Favrel, Joël
Author_Institution :
Lab. PRISMa, Univ. de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
Abstract :
Assembly sequence generation constitutes a sensitive manufacturing phase resulting in the conditioning of all production organisation. Usually a static choice of the “best” route is made from the set of admissible routings for a product. The basic idea of the study is to keep all the information supplied by the multiple sequences and to make a choice in real-time according to the actual state of the shop floor. The objective is to obtain reactivity and flexibility improvement and effective assembly operation parallelism. A multiple assembly sequence model is proposed together with an agent based control system exploiting this information. Experimentation shows the feasibility of the dynamic system, and also its efficiency and non-expensive implementation
Keywords :
assembling; computer aided production planning; cooperative systems; intelligent control; production control; real-time systems; trees (mathematics); dynamic assembly sequences; flexibility; multi-agent control system; multiple assembly sequence model; multiple sequences; operation sequence generation; production organisation; reactivity; sequence trees; shop floor; Assembly systems; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Dynamic scheduling; Electronic mail; Job shop scheduling; Object oriented modeling; Production facilities; Real time systems; Routing;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1995. ETFA '95, Proceedings., 1995 INRIA/IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2535-4
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.1995.496665
