A Service-Oriented Approach for Holonic Manufacturing Control and Beyond

摘要

The Holonic Manufacturing Execution System (HMES), developed at K.U.Leuven, utilizes a service-oriented approach to control manufacturing operations in real time. This chapter first explains how manufacturing control emerges from interaction between intelligent products and intelligent resources. Services play a key role in this interaction and form a decoupling point between the generic control system and application-specific elements. To illustrate that this service-oriented approach allows applying the same concepts and principles to various domains, several applications in manufacturing, open-air engineering, robotics and logistics are described. Finally, the chapter describes how supporting services, such as maintenance, can be seamlessly integrated with the core activities of the system.