Multi-Agent System for Integrating Quality and Process Control in a Home Appliance Production Line

Industrial Agents: Emerging Applications of Software Agents in Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 287-300

  Leitão, Paulo ^a,b   Rodrigues, Nelson ^a,b   Turrin, Claudio ^c   Pagani, Arnaldo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Whirlpool Europe   (Italy)

Author keywords

Factory automation; Industrial agents; Intelligent and reconfigurable manufacturing control; Intelligent products; Multi agent systems; Self adaptation

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; FACTORY AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL;

INTELLIGENT PRODUCTS; PRODUCTION LINE; RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING; SELF ADAPTATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944397218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800341-1.00016-4     Document Type: Chapter

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