Title
Time-synchronizing control of self-organizing shop floors for networked manufacturing
Abstract
In networked manufacturing systems, shop floors that are geographically dispersed can coordinate autonomously to complete the fabrication and assembly of products. It is a type of self-organizing production process, in which the scheduling of those shop floors must be synchronized, in terms of time and quantity. In this paper, we propose a time-synchronizing control policy for self-organizing shop floors based on the (max, +) system theory, prove the convergence of the synchronization algorithm, and verify the effectiveness of the algorithm by numerical experiments. Besides, a method of implementing the synchronizing control system based on the radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies is also proposed briefly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s10845-009-0240-7
J. Intelligent Manufacturing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Networked manufacturing systems,Synchronizing control,Self-organization,Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Convergence (routing),Scheduling (computing),Synchronizing,Self-organization,Control engineering,Scheduling (production processes),Engineering,Control system,Radio-frequency identification,Networked manufacturing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
6
0956-5515
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zheng Wang16412.16
Ziliong Cao200.34