MANAGEMENT OF CHANGES AND DISTURBANCES IN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

摘要

Manufacturing systems today operate in a changing environment rife with uncertainty and disturbances. Difficulties arise from unexpected tasks/events, non-linearities, and a multitude of interactions, possible failures while attempting to control various activities in dynamic shop floors. The fundamental aim of the paper is to outline reactive and proactive approaches on the one hand, and distributed control architectures, on the other hand, for change and disturbance management in manufacturing.