Agile manufacturing: forging new frontiers
Agile manufacturing: forging new frontiers
Applications of distributed artificial intelligence in industry
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Simulation software: an Operational Research Society survey of academic and industrial users
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
A simulation test-bed to evaluate multi-agent control of manufacturing systems
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Holons & Agents: Recent Developments and Mutual Impacts
Proceedings of the 9th ECCAI-ACAI/EASSS 2001, AEMAS 2001, HoloMAS 2001 on Multi-Agent-Systems and Applications II-Selected Revised Papers
Simulation with Arena
Virtual Environment Modeling for Requirements Validation of High Consequence Systems
RE '01 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Metrics for evaluating distributed manufacturing control systems
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Virtual enterprise management
Agent-based holonic design and operations environment for distributed manufacturing
Computers in Industry
A methodology for creating a virtual model for a flexible manufacturing system
Computers in Industry
ADACOR: a holonic architecture for agile and adaptive manufacturing control
Computers in Industry
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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Design and implementation of holonic manufacturing control systems for the real industrial applications require risky, careful decisions to ensure that the manufacturing system will successfully satisfy the demands of an ever-changing market. This paper suggests a virtual reality (VR)-based methodology for enhancing the design and implementation process of holonic control systems in manufacturing practice. The major focus has been given to the implementation of holonic control into the small to medium size manufacturing enterprises (SMEs). The 'virtual holonic factory' concept has been introduced, as a test bed for integration of a holonic control into a virtual factory, i.e. three-dimensional VR model of a factory in order to visually realize the effects of holonic control, when implemented to a real manufacturing system. A case study has been carried out in a medium size die-casting manufacturing plant. Through the virtual factory, a holonic control architecture for flow-line manufacturing system has been implemented for dynamic scheduling of machines in the medium size factory in order to achieve robustness necessary to handle the disturbances. The system performance and key attributes of the holonic control, such as re-configurability and robustness, have been tested and validated by using VR technology and analysis results have been presented.