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Integrated Virtual Platform for Manufacturing Systems Design
2013
Procedia CIRP
A test case is presented that shows the integration of five methods and the related software tools to support different activities for the design of a manufacturing production line, hence the benefits ...
The design of manufacturing systems is a critical task to be addressed throughout the factory life-cycle phases, including the early design, detailed design, ramp-up, reconfiguration, and monitoring. ...
More specifically, this paper will focus on tools for the evaluation of the performance of a manufacturing system, methods for optimization and tools for 3D visualization and design of a manufacturing ...
doi:10.1016/j.procir.2013.06.010
fatcat:ddzrlmf5bnfixjaalompfs5o3u
Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation
[chapter]
2009
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Thus, the usability is a major criterion for the design of future manufacturing systems. ...
A future adaptive and reconfigurable manufacturing system has to address, beside the requirements for agile and fast reaction to sudden and unpredictable changes in production demands, also the problem ...
State of the Art and Problem Statement in Multi-agent Control The multi-agent control approach is widely used for developing and designing the adaptive, reconfigurable, and modular structured manufacturing ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_3
fatcat:iw2hdreq4fe4nlhmmz4xcgvnn4
Life Cycle of Multi Technology Machine Tools – Modularization and Integral Design
2016
Procedia CIRP
Design guidelines are currently investigated based on the examination of different technology combinations. This approach focuses on systematic conceptual design for such hybrid machine technologies. ...
The method introduced is validated by a Multi-Technology Machining Centre with two simultaneously usable workspaces integrating a milling spindle and two laser processing units. ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the German Research Foundation DFG for the support of the depicted research within the Cluster of Excellence "Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage-Countries ...
doi:10.1016/j.procir.2016.05.017
fatcat:g5v3ybrwafe55edd5tgebsiipu
Modeling and Analyzing Context-Sensitive Changes during Runtime
[chapter]
2020
Model-Based Engineering of Collaborative Embedded Systems
AbstractFor collaborative embedded systems, it is essential to consider not only the behavior of each system and the interaction between systems, but also the interaction of systems with their often dynamic ...
operation to achieve the goal of developing systems that deal with dynamics in their open context at runtime by re-using the models from the engineering phase. ...
In the case of a CES in the manufacturing domain, an ontology can be used to formalize manufacturing-related capabilities (see Sections 6.3.2 and 6.4.2), features relevant for reconfiguration of a manufacturing ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62136-0_6
fatcat:mnlaubgub5edxeyx3qf44yfhjy
SysML-based design chain information modeling for variety management in production reconfiguration
2011
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
A case study of switchgear enclosure production reconfiguration system demonstrates that SysML-based information modeling excels in conducting requirements, structural, behavioral and constraints analysis ...
Satisfying diverse customer needs leads to proliferation of product variants. It is imperative to model the coherence of functional, product and process varieties throughout the design chain. ...
Huangming Wu is also acknowledged for assistance in conducting case studies and implementing the prototype system. ...
doi:10.1007/s10845-011-0585-6
fatcat:qnndohql5ncbvkigkf73qz6gci
Semantic tool interoperability for engineering manufacturing systems
2010
2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)
We evaluate the concept based on a realworld use case for data exchange between software tools involved in the engineering of a manufacturing system software simulator. ...
syntax, for the engineering of manufacturing systems. ...
Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft and the BMWFJ, Austria. ...
doi:10.1109/etfa.2010.5641343
dblp:conf/etfa/MoserB10
fatcat:zwsdenzs5ncbzfmpynbpszlriy
Agent-based distributed manufacturing control: A state-of-the-art survey
2009
Engineering applications of artificial intelligence
Manufacturing has faced significant changes during the last years, namely the move from a local economy towards a global and competitive economy, with markets demanding for highly customized products of ...
The paper also discusses the reasons for the weak adoption of these approaches by industry and points out the challenges and research opportunities for the future. ...
Later, PDCH was used with IEC 61499 function block model to achieve a general approach for dynamic and intelligent reconfiguration of real-time distributed manufacturing control systems (Brennan et al ...
doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2008.09.005
fatcat:ikgfnjqcm5c6jhjapud7nnzika
The development of an ontology for describing the capabilities of manufacturing resources
2018
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Resource vendors may utilize MaRCO to describe the functionality of their offerings in a comparable manner, while the system integrators and end users may use these descriptions for the fast identification ...
There is a desire to support such system adaptation and reconfiguration with computer-aided decision support systems. ...
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecomm ons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution ...
doi:10.1007/s10845-018-1427-6
fatcat:ovo6p5xeujbgvjigudiemjavri
Evolvable systems: an approach to self-X production
2011
International journal of computer integrated manufacturing (Print)
A concerted effort is being exerted through European research projects in collaboration with European manufacturers, technology/equipment suppliers, and universities. ...
processes may become self-X, x standing for one more desirable properties of a system subjected to a variable operation condition such as self-evolvable, self-reconfigurable, self-tuning, self-diagnosing ...
The EPS formalised concepts (ontology) and definitions are represented using a set of descriptive tools such as : • Definitions of the most important concepts: module, process, product, EPS module, skills ...
doi:10.1080/0951192x.2011.566282
fatcat:tsgzartxgvcvpgampmsiouohz4
Ontologies for Production Automation
[chapter]
2008
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This chapter reviews current approaches to use ontologies in the manufacturing domain, which include use for vocabulary definition in multi-agent systems and use for describing processes using Semantic ...
In this scenario, ontologies emerge as a candidate solution for representing knowledge about manufacturing processes, equipment, and products in a machine-interpretable way. ...
Ontologies for Design Support As an intermediate solution towards automatic (re)configuration of manufacturing systems, the use of design tools that guide or suggest solutions through the design process ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89784-2_11
fatcat:2hfw6w2k3fhnpcijbsc2iobf6a
Integrating Production Automation Expert Knowledge Across Engineering Stakeholder Domains
2010
2010 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems
We evaluate the proposed approach with data from real-world use cases from the production automation domain on data exchange between tools and model checking across tools. ...
Traditional integration approaches to data integration using a common repository are limited as they require an agreement on a common data schema by all project stakeholders. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to acknowledge the works of the Rockwell Automation Research Center, Czech Republic, in the field of the Manufacturing Agent Simulation Tool (MAST), as well as Liang ...
doi:10.1109/cisis.2010.57
dblp:conf/cisis/MoserBSW10
fatcat:v2m2dis2djc4hf6ea7xyhilf74
Semantics in Industrial Distributed Systems
2008
IFAC Proceedings Volumes
The general problem of distributed systems is that they are still tightly coupled from the point of view of system integration and are still far from openness that would enable cooperation at a larger ...
Relevant research area is the field of ontologies and semantic web. ...
An important function of a reconfigurable distributed manufacturing system is the distribution of tasks over multiple agents or holons. ...
doi:10.3182/20080706-5-kr-1001.02350
fatcat:s6frye73mbgmfdllrdveqbhivy
Evolvable Systems: An Approach to Self-X Production
[chapter]
2010
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
A concerted effort is being exerted through European research projects in collaboration with European manufacturers, technology/equipment suppliers, and universities. ...
processes may become self-X, x standing for one more desirable properties of a system subjected to a variable operation condition such as self-evolvable, self-reconfigurable, self-tuning, self-diagnosing ...
The EPS formalised concepts (ontology) and definitions are represented using a set of descriptive tools such as : • Definitions of the most important concepts: module, process, product, EPS module, skills ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10430-5_61
dblp:conf/det/OnoriSL09
fatcat:fejsl2aehvejjcpzrozafzko7a
Measures of reconfigurability and its key characteristics in intelligent manufacturing systems
2014
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Recently, a reconfigurability measurement process based upon axiomatic design knowledge base and the design structure matrix has been developed. ...
Among these are measures for the key characteristics of reconfigurability: integrability, convertibility, and customization, which have driven the qualitative and intuitive design of these technological ...
Instead, a lightweight "home-grown" situation-specific ontology would be more likely to be developed using any of a number of open-source or proprietary ontology development tools (Wikipedia 2007) . ...
doi:10.1007/s10845-014-0983-7
fatcat:aj6p7pb2yzg7tecxtacblmv3hq
RECONFIGURABLE PRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEMS: BEYOND ADACOR
2007
IFAC Proceedings Volumes
The agent-based and holonic paradigms symbolize this approach, and ADACOR holonic control architecture is a successful example of such a system. ...
In the recent evolution of production control systems, the emergence of decentralized systems capable of dealing with the rapid changes in the production environment better than the traditional centralized ...
A provider hides its internal structure and shows only the necessary functionalities to the outside world, in the form of services. ...
doi:10.3182/20070523-3-es-4908.00022
fatcat:m2i2a36ndrcn3jyof6xkwabo5a
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