Title :
Information integration platform for CIMS
Author :
Chan, Felix T S ; Zhang, Jie ; Lau, H.C.W. ; Ning, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. & Manuf. Syst. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., China
Abstract :
A new information integration platform for computer integrated manufacturing system (CIMS) is presented, which is based on agent and CORBA. CORBA enhances the system integration because it is an industry-standard for interoperable, distributed objects across heterogeneous hardware and software platform. Agent technology is used to improve intelligence of the integration system. In order to implement the information integration platform, we use a network integration server to integrate the network, design a generic database agent to integrate database, adopt multi-agent based architecture to integrate application, and utilize wrapper as a CORBA object to integrate legacy code
Keywords :
computer integrated manufacturing; distributed object management; multi-agent systems; software agents; CORBA; CORBA object; agent technology; computer integrated manufacturing system; generic database agent design; heterogeneous hardware and software platform; industry-standard; information integration platform; integration system intelligence; interoperable distributed objects; legacy code integration; multi-agent based architecture; network integration server; Agile manufacturing; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer integrated manufacturing; Databases; Hardware; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing systems; Network servers; Operating systems;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Innovation and Technology, 2000. ICMIT 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6652-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMIT.2000.916796
