Resource, Service and Product: Real-Time Monitoring Solution for Service Oriented Holonic Manufacturing Systems

摘要

Service orientation of holonic manufacturing systems represents a major milestone in increasing efficiency, flexibility and standardization for manufacturing enterprises. SOA governance assures the capability for dynamic composition of services at runtime without human intervention, allowing the system to automatically align itself to the business drivers. In this context there is a need for accurate and real time monitoring of the shop floor activities during the manufacturing process. This paper presents a shop floor monitoring solution based on distributed multi-agent system architecture capable of real time data collection and presentation for production tracking. The solution provides a monitoring portal where system administrators can track key performance indicators in real time. The paper discusses the strategies for handing the monitoring data in real time and also long term, focusing on the consolidation of information in persistent data structures.