Dynamic Co-Operative Scheduling Based on HLA

In an advanced factory, higher and higher flexibility is required to meet a great variety of customers’ requirements. In this environment, a dynamic management architecture is required for distributed production system. In this paper, a newly distributed simulation architecture called HLA (High Level Architecture) is utilized to achieve a distributed scheduling simulation for dynamic work assignment and flexible working group configuration in a distributed production system. It is verified that the distributed scheduling simulation based on HLA is effective to achieve higher flexibility for a distributed production system, by some case studies.