Real time distributed shop floor scheduling using an agent-based service-oriented architecture

This paper proposes a distributed manufacturing scheduling framework at the shop floor level. The shop floor is modeled as a collection of multiple workcells. Each of which is modeled as a flexible manufacturing system. The framework consists of a distributed shop floor control structure, dynamic distributed scheduling algorithms, multi-agent system modeling of workcells, and service oriented integration of the shop floor. At the workcell …