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Facing the fast growing needs regarding flexibility and adaptability of manufacturing systems, the decentralization of manufacturing execution control has attained high importance. Hence, in recent years different research and development activities have tackled the problem of decentralizing manufacturing execution control and implementing these decentralized systems within control architectures. One major result of these activities is a set of design patterns describing possibilities for decentralization including the description of major entities and interaction schemas.
These activities have also shown that agent systems are an appropriate means for the implementation of decentralized manufacturing execution control systems. They cope with decentralization by nature and (especially in the case of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) - compliant agents) provide appropriate means for the implementation of the internal behavior of entities and entity interaction.
In this chapter some major design patterns for decentralized manufacturing execution control systems are described and mapped to three major approaches with Product-Resource-Order-Staff Architecture (PROSA) and MetaMorph (both based on Holonic Manufacturing Systems) and PABADIS (Plant Automation Based on Distributed Systems), and which finally are compared. Exploiting this comparison the PABADIS’PROMISE (PABADIS based Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems for Reconfigurable Enterprises) architecture is described as an architecture trying to incorporate the advantages of the different approaches and avoid its disadvantages.
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Bratukhin, A., Lüder, A., Treytl, A. (2010). Applications of Agent Systems in Intelligent Manufacturing. In: Kühnle, H. (eds) Distributed Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-707-3_7
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