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The conventional centralized, rigid information systems cannot serve the demands of modern (manufacturing)
industry adequately any longer. In order to stay competitive, industry needs to be highly
flexible, with shorter job sizes, variable product portfolios, and always changing shop floors. Although
centralized approaches can in the meantime provide highly sophisticated and efficient scheduling solutions,
the requirements imposed by novel manufacturing trends renders centralized control systems
more and more unfeasible (cf. [8]).
Against this background, multi-agent based industrial information systems seem to be a promising
and natural alternative. They provide decentralized architecture, modularity, robustness, and adaptability
to changes (cf. [9]). Moreover, the evolution of industry in the previous decades has rearranged
the principal goals, especially in manufacturing control. In the past, the main objective was achieving
an optimal scheduling algorithm.
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Keywords
Industrial agents Multi-agent systems
Citation
Bratukhin, Aleksey; Peña, Yoseba; Leitão, Paulo (2011). Industrial agent technology. IN Handbook on industrial electronics. CRC Press, Talyor & Francis Group. chapter 16 of Vol.2. ISBN 978-1-43980281-6. p.1-15