Real-Time Optimization in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility

摘要

A major manufacturing research facility has been established at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility has been designed to address the standards and measurement needs for the factory of the future. A five-layer hierarchical planning/control architecture is under development to manage production and support activities. A three layer architecture is being developed to manage the data requirements of the modules within that hierarchy. Each of these architectures contain functions that require the solution to one or more optimization problems. The paper describes both the production planning/control and the data management architectures being developed at NBS. It emphasizes the optimization problems contained within those architectures. It also discusses the work underway at NBS to address some of those problems.