Hierarchy in distributed shop floor control

Computers in Industry

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-137

  Bongaerts, Luc ^a   Monostori, László ^b   McFarlane, Duncan ^c   Kádár, Botond ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

SHOP FLOOR CONTROL;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0034298313     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(00)00062-2     Document Type: Article

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