A benchmarking service for the manufacturing control research community

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 667-679

  Valckenaers, Paul ^a   Cavalieri, Sergio ^b   Saint Germain, Bart ^a   Verstraete, Paul ^a   Hadeli, ^a   Bandinelli, Romeo ^c   Terzi, Sergio ^b   Van Brussel, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agents; Benchmark examples; Control applications; Industry automation; Performance evaluation; Plants; Production control; Production systems

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

BENCHMARK EXAMPLES; CONTROL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRY AUTOMATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 33751505125     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-006-0036-y     Document Type: Article

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