A HOLONIC APPROACH FOR MANUFACTURING CONTROL: AN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION

摘要

In the age of globalisation and virtual enterprises, industrial firms are challenged by a volatile and demanding market as well as an everyday more competitive environment. As a main actor of the enterprise integration, manufacturing control systems should be designed in order to answer in a flexible way these necessities of reactivity and profitability. Approaches such as Holonic Manufacturing System propose a structure organized as a loosely coupled network of communicating and cooperating agents to solve this problem. Based on an industrial application, and inspired by this approach, an implementation to achieve the manufacturing control is proposed.