An agent-based production control framework for multiple-line collaborative manufacturing

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2155-2176

  Lu, Ta Ping ^a   Yih, Yuehwern ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

COLLABORATIVE CONTROL FRAMEWORK; COLLABORATIVE MANUFACTURING;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0035838752     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540110038478     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Amrine, H. T., Ritchey, J. A. and Moodie, C. L., 1987, Manufacturing Organization and Management (Prentice-Hall).
2. Balasubramanian, S. and Norrie, D. H., 1995, A multi-agent intelligent design system integrating manufacturing and shop-floor control. First International Conference on Multi-agent Systems, San Francisco, pp. 3-9.
3. Brown, J., Harhen, J. and Shivnan J., 1996, Production Management Systems-an Integrated Perspective, 2nd edn (Addison-Wesley).
4. Genesereth, M. R. and Nilson, N. J., 1987, Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Morgan Kaufman).
5. Crowston, K. and Malone, T. W., 1988, Intelligent software agents. Byte, 13, 267-270.
6. Gu, P., Balasubramanian, S. and Norrie, D. H., 1997, Bidding-based process planning and scheduling in a multi-agent system. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 32(2), 477-496.
7. Herrin, G., 1994, CIM perspectives-autonomous agent architectures for manufacturing. Modern Machine Shop, 67(August) 64-65.
8. Ishida, T., 1995, Parallel, distributed and multi-agent production systems-a research foundation for distributed artificial intelligence. First International Conference on Multi-agent Systems, San Francisco, June, pp. 416-422.
9. Kempenaers, J., Pinte, J., Detand, J. and Kruth, J.-P., 1996, A collaborative process planning and scheduling system. Advances in Engineering Software, 25(1), 3-8.
10. Khedro, T., 1996, Distributed problem-solving approach to collaborative facility engineering. Advances in Engineering Software, 25(2-3), 243-252.
11. Lee, K. I., Kang, M. and Park, J. H., 1996, A collaborative scheduling system for made-to-order manufacturing. CIRP Annals, 45(1), 461-464.
12. Lei, M., Yang, X., Tseng, M. M. and Yang, S., 1998, Design an intelligent machine center-Strategy and practice. Mechatronics, 8(3), 271-285.
13. Lin, G. Y. and Solberg, J. J., 1992, Integrated shop floor control using autonomous agents. IIE Transactions, 24(3), 57-71.
14. Nof, S. Y. and Weill, R., 1992, Collaborative Coordination Control (CCC) of distributed multimachine manufacturing. CIRP Annals, 41(1), 441-445.
15. O'Hare, G. M. P., 1990, Designing intelligent manufacturing systems: a distributed artificial intelligence approach. Computer in Industries, 15 (October) 17-25.
16. Shoham, Y., 1993, Agent oriented programming. Artificial Intelligence, 60(1), 51-92.
17. Sikora, R. and Shaw, M. J., 1997, Coordination mechanisms for multi-agent manufacturing systems: Applications to integrated manufacturing scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 44(2), 175-187.
18. Sluga, A., Butala, P. and Bervag, G., 1998, A multi-agent approach to process planning and fabrication in distributed manufacturing. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 35(3-4), 455-458.
19. Tseng, M. M., Lei, M. and Su, C., 1997, A collaborative control system for mass customization manufacturing. CIRP Annals, 46(1), 373-376.