Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance

Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance......Page 1
DEDICATION......Page 3
PREFACE......Page 4
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 6
AUTHORS......Page 7
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
Table of Contents......Page 0
AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS......Page 19
FROM AGENT TECHNOLOGY TO MANUFACTURING PRACTICE......Page 24
BOOK MOTIVATIONS AND PURPOSES......Page 31
REFERENCES......Page 32
INTRODUCTION......Page 35
AGENT SYSTEM ENGINEERING......Page 42
Problem-Oriented MAS Design......Page 45
Architecture-Oriented MAS Design......Page 47
Process–Oriented MAS Design......Page 50
A Short Description of PS-Bikes......Page 53
Does PS-Bikes Need Agents?......Page 57
Two Planning Problems at PS-Bikes......Page 58
Workflow Management and CRM......Page 59
Planning Strategies to Manage the Unpredictable Aspects of e-Commerce......Page 66
A Control Problem at PS-Bikes Southern Plant......Page 67
CONCLUSIONS......Page 68
REFERENCES......Page 69
CHAPTER 3: AGENTS FOR PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROL......Page 72
FOCUSING ON PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN MANUFACTURING......Page 73
PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROL IN MANUFACTURING FROM AN INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE......Page 76
BASIC CONCEPTS IN PRODUCTION PLANNING......Page 78
The Information Needed by Planning......Page 79
Some Classic Models for Production Planning......Page 82
BASIC CONCEPTS IN PRODUCTION SCHEDULING......Page 84
The Problem of Computational Complexity......Page 85
Basic Terminology and Concepts for Manufacturing Scheduling......Page 87
Feasibility-Based Characterization of Scheduling Problems......Page 88
Performance-Based Characterization of Scheduling Problems......Page 91
Some Remarks about Classic Solution Approaches......Page 93
BASIC CONCEPTS IN PRODUCTION CONTROL......Page 94
The Manufacture of Discrete Parts and Assembly Processes......Page 95
Batch and Continuous Processes......Page 98
Integration of Control Processes......Page 99
AGENT-BASED APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND SCHEDULING......Page 101
Planning and Scheduling MAS Approaches Based on an Auction Process......Page 105
Planning and Scheduling MAS Approaches Based on a Cooperation Process......Page 106
Planning and Scheduling MAS Approaches Based on Hierarchical Decomposition Process......Page 107
Remarks on the MAS Approaches to Planning and Scheduling......Page 108
AGENT-BASED APPLICATIONS FOR SCHEDULING AND CONTROL IN MANUFACTURING......Page 110
PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROL IN PS-BIKES......Page 113
MAS Model for Planning and Scheduling in the New PS-Bikes Plant......Page 114
Scheduling and Control in the New PS-Bikes Plant......Page 122
CONCLUSIONS......Page 123
REFERENCES......Page 125
INTRODUCTION......Page 129
MODELING AND SIMULATING IN MANUFACTURING......Page 130
MULTIAGENT-BASED SIMULATION......Page 136
Agent-Based Simulation in Social Sciences......Page 137
When Can MABS Be Applied? Some Considerations and Conclusions......Page 139
Presence of Autonomous Entities......Page 140
Analysis of Distributed Architectures and Control Policies......Page 141
Modeling and Implementation Issues for MABSs......Page 142
Swarm......Page 145
RePast......Page 146
MAST......Page 147
AN APPLICATION OF MABS IN PS-BIKES......Page 148
MABS System for Tuning MAS Scheduling Parameters......Page 150
Executing the MABS-Based Tuning System: Some Results and Conclusions......Page 154
CONCLUSIONS......Page 158
REFERENCES......Page 159
INTRODUCTION......Page 162
The FIPA Abstract Architecture......Page 163
Infrastructures for Agent Interactions......Page 164
Agent Social Relationships......Page 165
Modeling the Communication Semantic with an Ontology......Page 166
Message Content and Message Content Language......Page 169
Agent Interaction Protocols......Page 171
JADE: an Implementation Platform......Page 173
PS-Bikes Case Study: Initial Description of System Requirements......Page 175
DESIGNING THE SOLUTION WITH PASSI......Page 176
The PASSI Methodology......Page 177
The System Requirements Model......Page 178
The Agent Society Model......Page 180
The Agent Implementation Model......Page 186
The Code Model......Page 192
The Deployment Model......Page 194
Agent and Society Test......Page 195
AGENT IMPLEMENTATION......Page 196
REFERENCES......Page 200
INTRODUCTION......Page 202
TWO OUTSTANDING SUPPLY CHAIN-ORIENTED MAS APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING......Page 203
The Metamorph II Project......Page 204
The AARIA Project......Page 208
Auction-Based Models......Page 212
Cooperation-Based Models......Page 219
Hierarchical Models......Page 223
SUCCESSFUL MAS APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING AND CONTROL......Page 225
PRACTICAL WORKING INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS......Page 235
CONCLUSIONS......Page 236
REFERENCES......Page 238
INTRODUCTION......Page 242
NEXT GENERATION E-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS......Page 245
WHAT MUST BE REFINED IN AGENT-BASED MANUFACTURING......Page 247
Standards......Page 250
Integration with Current Methodologies/Technologies: the Need of a la Carte Solutions......Page 251
Bidding vs. Executing: the Role of Simulation......Page 252
WHAT HAS YET TO BE DONE IN AGENT-BASED MANUFACTURING......Page 253
Negotiation Mechanisms and Protocols......Page 254
Integrating Planning, Scheduling, and Control......Page 256
Integrating Agent-Based and Traditional Approaches......Page 257
Combining Individual Solving and Coordination–Negotiation......Page 258
Theoretical Investigation of Methodology......Page 259
PS-BIKES AND ITS CHALLENGING “AGENTIFICATION” PROCESS TO ACHIEVE AGILITY......Page 260
CONCLUSIONS......Page 261
REFERENCES......Page 267