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The manufacturing industry is entering a stage of change which is driven by the competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable events. Efficient and effective manufacturing enterprise organization methods are highly desired to be responsive to the physical and software disturbances. A multi-agent model for the order driven agile manufacturing systems and order form selection algorithm are...
With the development of market demands and pressures of competition, enterprise need to maintain highly flexible manufacturing system to cope with a complex manufacturing environment. The concept of Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) is the key to meet future demands of highly dynamic production environments. In this paper, dynamic re-configuration and task allocation method with some constriction...
Holonic Manufacturing System (HMS) is a new concept for enterprise reconfiguration, order form selection and evaluation are very important problem in task allocation and carry out. This paper focuses on the dynamic re-configuration and task optimization of HMS. The concept of dynamic virtual clustering is extended to the control process of a holarchy or holonic organization. A task-oriented clustering...
Job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is very common in a discrete manufacturing environment. It deals with multi-operation models, which are different from the flow shop models. It is usually very hard to find its optimal solution. In this paper, a new hybrid approach in dealing with this job-shop scheduling problem based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and simulated annealing (SA) technique is...
The dynamic re-organization of holons is a key element of current research on HMS. Dynamic intelligent reconfiguration is important for holonic control. This paper extends the mechanism of virtual clustering to the reorganization of holons and uses contract net-based task allocation protocol to efficiently deal with the communication and coordination problems during task-oriented clustering. The PSO-based...
Holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) provide a flexible and decentralized manufacturing environment to accommodate changes dynamically. This paper presents a framework to model and control HMS based on Petri net and MAS theory. A time Petri net (TPN) model was proposed to achieve this goal. A TPN represents a set of established contracts among the agents in HMS to fulfil an order. A scheduling architecture...
In this paper, dynamic re-configuration and task optimization of holonic manufacturing system (HMS) model is put forward. The concept of dynamic virtual clustering is extended to the control process of a holarchy or holonic organization. A task-oriented clustering mechanism and a corresponding optimization algorithm are presented as an efficient approach to the holonic control in HMS domain. A hybrid...
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