Modeling of manufacturing information system based on complexity science

Manufacturing information system (MIS) has properties of complex system. To analyze, plan and optimally design MIS, a new modeling approach based on flexible coupling automata of complexity science was presented. Firstly the complex characteristic of MIS is investigated. Secondly the model system of MIS based on complexity system is built. Thirdly mutual interactive between the units based on the two-way automata was constructed, which was suitable for communication between the components in MIS. Further, the ontology was employed to describe the attributes of the components to eliminate the difference of information in variant components. The proposed modeling approach not only makes it convenient for analysis, design and computer implementation of MIS, but also can be applied to model of other complex systems.