From Intra-Enterprise Towards Extra-Enterprise Production Planning

In the domain of production planning multi-agent systems there is a strong demand for extending the solution beyond the borders of a single enterprise in order to meet future business requirements: (i) to manage the extra-enterprise production planning effectively, (ii) to create and reconfigure flexible dynamic configuration of virtual enterprises (e.g. among collaborating business partners). The concept of extra-enterprise agents helps to facilitare secure remote access and manage the production planning processes from outside the factory, inspect the current and the future load of particular production units, modify already running customer projects, or include/invoke a new customer-project into the system remotely.