Agent-supported simulation environment for intelligent manufacturing and warehouse management systems

The manufacturing field is an area where the application of simulation is an essential tool for validating methods and architectures before applying them on the factory floor and the warehouse control. Multiagent system technology has demonstrated its utility in manufacturing system modelling and implementation. Agenthood features such as proactivity, reactivity, sociability and trust may also be useful for associating them with the specific simulation needs of the new manufacturing and warehouse management requirements. In this article, we present an agent-supported simulation tool for an intelligent manufacturing system and its influence with the management of the warehouse applied to a metal-mechanic manufacturing enterprise. The main goal is to provide a flexible simulation tool that can be adapted to solve the new manufacturing requirements and optimise and validate methods of management of material in warehouses that appear in real environments. Thus, the benefits of the multiagent theory application for the simulation of intelligent manufacturing and warehouse management system allows the experts of manufacturing domains to optimise the resource usage, control of inventory, providers and to have enough data to make decisions that influence the production level are presented.

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