An agent-based manufacturing system using asynchronous messaging

Authors:
Paulo Sousa
Affiliations:
Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Venue:
ROCOM'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Robotics, control and manufacturing technology
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Recent changes in the society and economy lead to the need to study new approaches to model and develop an emerging generation of manufacturing systems. Agent-based systems appear as a well suited approach for supporting distributed intelligence in manufacturing, allowing autonomy, reactive and pro-active behaviours, and social abilities support. This paper presents Fabricare, a prototype system for handling the problem of dynamic scheduling of manufacturing orders. We assume the holonic paradigm as a "vision" and overall guiding structure, while the agent paradigm is used as a development or implementation technology. In this implementation we use a main stream programming environment (.net) and the message passing paradigm to convert the existing prototype system developed in Prolog.