THE INTELLIGENT PRODUCT IN MANUFACTURING CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT

Duncan McFarlane, Sanjay Sarma, Jin Lung Chirn, C Y Wong, Kevin Ashton
2002 IFAC Proceedings Volumes  
The authors are involved i n a major, industrially-funded, research project which is connecting manufactured components and products to the internet. The Auto-ID project will enable unique information about a particular item to be stored, retrieved, communicated to others and even used in automated decision making relevant to that item. In this way we begin to build a specification for an intelligent product -one whose information content is permanently bound to its material content. This paper
more » ... will begin to explore the impact of such developments on manufacturing shop floor control and management and will in particular, examine the way in which so called distributed, intelligent manufacturing control methods can be enhanced.
doi:10.3182/20020721-6-es-1901.00011 fatcat:lqrgm6ezinggrivqcine3krtiq