Stigmergy in Scheduling Process of Holonic Manufacturing Systems

Abstract:

This paper present the new approach of the Holonic Manufacturing Systems. The new concept take in consideration an associated or augmented property to belong a different concepts inspired from biological social live. The new challenge on the new millennium in manufacturing process conduct in a more sophisticated and diversification techniques to approach the planning and scheduling and finally the managing complex processing in industrial environment. The answer for new context of the globalization and the mass-customization is a high responsivness in a distributed space of orders, products, resources or other necessity. To be able to answer on to mass customization process is mandatory to have a high degree of flexibility. The last major modeling in the Holonic Manufacturing Systems and Multi-agent Systems try to integrate all the aspect could be a substantial contribution to a new value compare to the classical systems.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 680)
• Pages: 275-283
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.680.275
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Mircea Gorgoi, Andrei Gurau, Stefan Oae
• Keywords: Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS), Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS), Multi-Agent System (MAS), Stigmergical System Architecture (SSA)

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