AGENT-BASED MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF DYNAMICALLY INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

摘要：

Intense competition amongst manufacturers coupled with fluctuations in demand patterns and products mixes, driven by continuous changes in customer requirements, are inducing significant changes on the operations and configurations of manufacturing organisations. How to respond to these changes rapidly and at minimum cost constitutes a major challenge for manufacturers. The DIMS project (Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems) has developed an agent-based approach that enables manufacturing systems to be modelled using multi-agent systems in such a manner that optimal and timely responses to the aforementioned changes are generated from the interactions that take place within the multi-agents systems. This approach also incorporates a distributed discrete event simulation mechanism that enables ‘what-if system configurations to be evaluated dynamically for system restructure. This paper presents the approach paying particular attention to the distributed simulation mechanism.

关键词： Dynamically integrated manufacturing systems agile manufacturing reconfigurable manufacturing systems multi-agentsystems modeling and simulation

作者: A. I. Anosike D. Z. Zhang

作者单位: School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter Exeter EX4 4QF, United Kingdo School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of ExeterExeter EX4 4QF, United Kingdom

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第二十届国际生产研究大会

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-6

在线出版日期: 2009-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）