Design and implementation of a real-time holonic control system for manufacturing

Abstract This paper describes a new approach to low-level process/machine control for manufacturing that is based on the holonic manufacturing systems (HMSs) paradigm. The primary motivation for this work is the requirement for manufacturing systems that can automatically and intelligently adapt to changes in the manufacturing environment while still achieving overall system goals. To meet this requirement, a low-level architecture for distributed process/machine control is described that is dynamically reconfigurable and supports distributed applications based on the IEC-1499 function block (FB) standard. To evaluate the feasibility of this new approach, a prototype system based on this architecture is described and performance results are reported.

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