Paper Info
Title
Multi agent architecture for dynamic incremental process planning in the flexible manufacturing system
Abstract
Due to rapid changes of markets and pressures of competitions, industries are adopting their production ways to support diversity of customer’s needs and increase of new product developments. This paper deals with development of an agent-based architecture of dynamic systems for process planning in the manufacturing systems. In consideration of alternative manufacturing processes and machine tools, the process plans and the schedules of the manufacturing resources are generated incrementally and dynamically. A previously proposed negotiation protocol is customized and improved to generate suitable process plans for the target products real-timely and dynamically, based on the alternative manufacturing processes. The alternative manufacturing processes are presented by the process plan networks and the suitable process plans are searched and generated to cope with both the dynamic status and disturbances of the manufacturing systems. We initiatively combine the heuristic search algorithms of the process plan networks with the negotiation protocols, in order to generate suitable process plans.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s10845-008-0206-1
J. Intelligent Manufacturing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Flexible manufacturing system,Multi agent system,Process planning,Scheduling
Process development execution system,Computer-integrated manufacturing,Manufacturing engineering,Multi-agent system,Agent architecture,Schedule,Flexible manufacturing system,Engineering,Manufacturing execution system,New product development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
4
0956-5515
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.65
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hossein Tehrani Nik Nejad1110.65
Nobuhiro Sugimura2236.60
Koji Iwamura3183.37
Yoshitaka Tanimizu4173.74