An Intelligent Control System for Digital Workshop Production

Abstract:

In general, production control of digital workshops is a complicated systematical engineering. Because of lacking the methods and means of acquiring the manufacturing data in real time, the traditional production control methods cannot satisfy the real production control requirement of digital workshops. In this paper, we put forward an intelligent control system for digital workshop production. The main contributions include three aspects: Firstly, we introduce and adopt Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology as a means to acquire the manufacturing information in real time produced by the bottom-level manufacturing devices. Secondly, we develop the wcPML (workshop control with Physical Markup Language) and utilize it to act as a media to realize the information visualized description and transmission between the top-level control systems and bottom-level manufacturing sites of workshops. Thirdly, we adopt Java Web technology and wireless LAN to build the infrostructure for the intelligent control system for workshop production. Some key enabling technologies for the intelligent control system also are presented and described following with some concluding remarks.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 16-19)
• Pages: 75-83
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.16-19.75
• Online since: October 2009
• Authors: Ju Jiang Cao, Yan Li
• Keywords: Information Tracking, Intelligent Control, Planning, Quality Control, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Real-Time, Scheduling, Workshop

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