Responsibility-based manufacturing

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 439-448

  Adamides, Emmanuel D ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Holonics Enterprise Design Systems   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing; Distributed decision making; Flexible manufacturing systems; Heterarchical coordination; Intelligent agents; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PERFORMANCE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PLANNING;

AGILE MANUFACTURING; DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING; HETERARCHICAL COORDINATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MASS CUSTOMISATION; RANDOM MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; RESPONSIBILITY BASED MANUFACTURING; SYSTEM RECONFIGURATION; COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT AGENT; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RESOURCE SHARING; RESPONSIBILITY;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029659108     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01178970     Document Type: Article

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