Intelligent monitoring system used to control asynchronous production systems

Author

Szabados, Barna

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

40

Abstract

A large amount of information is required to effectively manage a flexible asynchronous production system, such as a car assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario. Such system is highly influenced by human factors. An intelligent production monitoring system (IPMS) was developed specifically for this production system. IPMS is a medium for presenting a vast amount of relevant, real-time and historical production information to the car plant management staff. Together with the standard predictive online models it allows experienced supervisory staff to arrive at operational decisions during shifts

Keywords

automobile industry; computerised monitoring; flexible manufacturing systems; human factors; production control; real-time systems; asynchronous production control; car assembly plant; flexible asynchronous production system; human factors; intelligent production monitoring system; predictive online models; real-time; Assembly; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Creep; Hardware; Human factors; Intelligent systems; Production systems; Vehicles; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual and Intelligent Measurement Systems, 2001, IEEE International Workshop on. VIMS 2001

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6568-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VIMS.2001.924897

Filename

924897