A layered approach to distributed manufacturing

Leitão, Paulo; Restivo, Francisco

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Leitão, Paulo

Restivo, Francisco

Abstract(s)

World-wide competition forces enterprises to achieve new cooperations and arrangements with other enterprises in order to share skills, using the virtual enterprise concept. The virtual enterprise introduces the distributed manufacturing concept, which can be expanded and zoomed to other distributed layers, such as multi-site and interacting units. The development and implementation of distributed manufacturing control systems, based in new distributed manufacturing paradigms, plays a key factor in the improvement of the enterprises capacity to react to market and organisation changes. This paper gives an overview of manufacturing paradigms and describes the evolution of control architectures, from the classical approach to the distributed approaches. The new paradigms for distributed manufacturing control, in order to prepare the next generation of manufacturing systems requirements, are also presented, with special attention to three concepts: Holonic, Biological and Fractal Manufacturing Systems.

Keywords

Distributed manufacturing systems Holonic manufacturing systems Flexible manufacturing systems

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http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1446

Citation

Leitão, Paulo; Restivo, Francisco (1999). A layered approach to distributed manufacturing. In Proceedings of the Advanced Summer Institute – Life Cycle Approaches to Production Systems: Management, Control and Supervision. Leuven, Belgium.