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1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-89
Author(s):  
Jeff Butler
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Flexible Production ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Manufacturing Management ◽  
Flexible Production Systems

scholarly journals On agent-based decentralized and integrated scheduling for small-scale manufacturing

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Gehlhoff ◽  
Alexander Fay
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Flexible Production ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Production Flow ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Integrated Scheduling ◽  
Flexible Production Systems ◽  
Positive Properties

AbstractSmall-scale manufacturing often relies on flexible production systems that can cope with frequent changes of products and equipment. Transports are a significant part of the production flow, especially in the domain of large and heavy workpieces that requires explicit planning to avoid unnecessary delays. This contribution takes a detailed look at how to create feasible integrated schedules within a decentralised or even heterarchical architecture and which information the agents have to exchange. These schedules incorporate constraints such as the blocking-constraint. They also consider dynamic setup and operation durations while finding a good-enough solution. The proposed agent-based solution applies to a wide variety of scheduling problems and reveals positive properties in terms of scalability and reconfigurability.

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