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® 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 manufac- turing systems by the evaluation of the manufacturing performance. The simulation results, in dynamic environ- ment, showed that the proposed approach leads to similar performance to flexible manufacturing system.
Capacity reconfiguration management in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
RENNA, PAOLO
2010-01-01
Abstract
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® 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 manufac- turing systems by the evaluation of the manufacturing performance. The simulation results, in dynamic environ- ment, showed that the proposed approach leads to similar performance to flexible manufacturing system.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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