Holonic Manufacturing Execution Systems for Customized and Agile Production: Manufacturing Plant Simulation

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The e-mass-customisation is one of the current tendencies in production, in which each client details desired products using e-means. This imposes advances on integration and collaboration of manufacturing entities, aiming at adaptability to achieve production heterogeneity and agility. An integration element of management and shop floor systems is the Manufacturing Execution System (MES). It may take into account smart-product technology to deal with customised manufacturing. In this technology, the execution of each order is driven by an entity called smart-product. A smart-product requests and even competes for services of resources, which in turn collaborate based on their features and some flexible logic. However, this collaboration is by itself complex, firstly due to the heterogeneity of the resources. Thus, resources and even smart-products have been “encapsulated” in collaborative entities called Holons (HLs), for homogenisation and integration issues. This contributes for achieving Holonic MES (HMES). HMES comprises also other issues like control of the Holon dynamics. In this context, authors’ previous studies proposed a particular solution, based on “Rules” and “Notification”, for control of Holon collaborations. This solution was developed as a HMES meta-model and implemented over a simulator called ANALYTICE II, applied mainly onsimulated manufacturing cells. In turn, this paper proposes a meta-model application over a simulated manufacturing plant using ANALYTICE II. The proposed case study takes into account aspects of agility in customised production.

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5º Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia de Fabricação - COBEF, 2009
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