Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 1-4, Pages 395-404Publisher
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-009-2071-2
Keywords
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems; Capacity exchange; Multi-agent systems; Discrete event simulation
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During a manufacturing operation, exceptions may occur dynamically and unpredictably. Their occurrence may lead to the degradation of system performance or, in the worst case scenario, may interrupt the production process. The research proposes a multi-agent architecture for the capacity reconfiguration problem in a reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS). A policy to manage capacity exchange among manufacturing lines based on due date performance is proposed. The Multi-Agent architecture was built in a simulation environment developed in ARENA(A (R)) package and it is compared with a dedicated manufacturing and flexible manufacturing systems. The simulations are conducted in several demand scenarios to test the approach in a static and dynamic context. The simulation environment developed can support the planner to decide among the different manufacturing systems by the evaluation of the manufacturing performance. The simulation results, in dynamic environment, showed that the proposed approach leads to similar performance to flexible manufacturing system.
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