On agent-based decentralized and integrated scheduling for small-scale manufacturing
Publication date
2020-01-28
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Research article
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at - Automatisierungstechnik
Periodical volume
68
Periodical issue
1
First page
15
Last page
31
Peer-reviewed
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Part of the university bibliography
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Abstract
© 2020 Gehlhoff and Fay. Small-scale manufacturing often relies on flexible production systems that can cope with frequent changes of products and equipment. Transports are a significant part of the production flow, especially in the domain of large and heavy workpieces that requires explicit planning to avoid unnecessary delays. This contribution takes a detailed look at how to create feasible integrated schedules within a decentralised or even heterarchical architecture and which information the agents have to exchange. These schedules incorporate constraints such as the blocking-constraint. They also consider dynamic setup and operation durations while finding a good-enough solution. The proposed agent-based solution applies to a wide variety of scheduling problems and reveals positive properties in terms of scalability and reconfigurability.
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Enthalten in: Automatisierungstechnik. - Berlin : de Gruyter, Oldenbourg, 1985. - Bd. 68.2020, 1, Seite 15-31
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