Agent-based Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing System

摘要

This paper deals with an agent-based architecture of an integrated system for process planning and scheduling for multi jobs in flexible manufacturing systems. The process plans and the schedules of the manufacturing resources and the individual jobs are generated dynamically and incrementally. The architecture does not employ a set of predefined process plans, and the process plans of the individual jobs are incrementally and real timely generated from the alternative production routes in the process plan networks. Coordination agents are proposed to generate a suitable the assignment of the job agents to the machine tool agents at each step of the negotiation.