Integrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous Agents
Process planning and scheduling are important manufacturing planning activities which deal with resource utilization and time span of manufacturing operations. The process plans and the schedules generated in the planning phase shall be modified in the execution phase due to the disturbances in the...
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| author | Hossein TEHRANI NIK NEJAD Nobuhiro SUGIMURA Koji IWAMURA Yoshitaka TANIMIZU |
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| description | Process planning and scheduling are important manufacturing planning activities which deal with resource utilization and time span of manufacturing operations. The process plans and the schedules generated in the planning phase shall be modified in the execution phase due to the disturbances in the manufacturing systems. This paper deals with a multi-agent architecture of an integrated and dynamic system for process planning and scheduling for multi jobs. A negotiation protocol is discussed, in this paper, to generate the process plans and the schedules of the manufacturing resources and the individual jobs, dynamically and incrementally, based on the alternative manufacturing processes. The alternative manufacturing processes are presented by the process plan networks discussed in the previous paper, and the suitable process plans and schedules are searched and generated to cope with both the dynamic status and the disturbances of the manufacturing systems. We initiatively combine the heuristic search algorithms of the process plan networks with the negotiation protocols, in order to generate suitable process plans and schedules in the dynamic manufacturing environment. A simulation software has been developed to carry out case studies, aimed at verifying the performance of the proposed multi-agent architecture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d9f56c91a064b7aa0ab24c13331a5f82022-12-22T03:02:10ZengThe Japan Society of Mechanical EngineersJournal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing1881-30542008-07-012471973410.1299/jamdsm.2.719jamdsmIntegrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous AgentsHossein TEHRANI NIK NEJAD0Nobuhiro SUGIMURA1Koji IWAMURA2Yoshitaka TANIMIZU3Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture UniversityJapan Society of Mechanical Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture UniversityJapan Society of Mechanical Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture UniversityJapan Society of Mechanical Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture UniversityProcess planning and scheduling are important manufacturing planning activities which deal with resource utilization and time span of manufacturing operations. The process plans and the schedules generated in the planning phase shall be modified in the execution phase due to the disturbances in the manufacturing systems. This paper deals with a multi-agent architecture of an integrated and dynamic system for process planning and scheduling for multi jobs. A negotiation protocol is discussed, in this paper, to generate the process plans and the schedules of the manufacturing resources and the individual jobs, dynamically and incrementally, based on the alternative manufacturing processes. The alternative manufacturing processes are presented by the process plan networks discussed in the previous paper, and the suitable process plans and schedules are searched and generated to cope with both the dynamic status and the disturbances of the manufacturing systems. We initiatively combine the heuristic search algorithms of the process plan networks with the negotiation protocols, in order to generate suitable process plans and schedules in the dynamic manufacturing environment. A simulation software has been developed to carry out case studies, aimed at verifying the performance of the proposed multi-agent architecture.https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jamdsm/2/4/2_4_719/_pdf/-char/enmulti agent systemintegrated process planning and schedulingreal time schedulingflexible manufacturing systempetri nets |
| spellingShingle | Hossein TEHRANI NIK NEJAD Nobuhiro SUGIMURA Koji IWAMURA Yoshitaka TANIMIZU Integrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous Agents Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing multi agent system integrated process planning and scheduling real time scheduling flexible manufacturing system petri nets |
| title | Integrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous Agents |
| title_full | Integrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous Agents |
| title_fullStr | Integrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous Agents |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous Agents |
| title_short | Integrated Dynamic Process Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems via Autonomous Agents |
| title_sort | integrated dynamic process planning and scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems via autonomous agents |
| topic | multi agent system integrated process planning and scheduling real time scheduling flexible manufacturing system petri nets |
| url | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jamdsm/2/4/2_4_719/_pdf/-char/en |
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