Holonic Dynamic Scheduling Architecture and Services

: Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the single entities autonomy, adaptability and dynamism properties. Such organisations are very different, which imply organisational and technological shift through agility, distribution, decentralisation, reactivity and flexibility. New organisational and technological paradigms are needed in order to reply to the modern manufacturing systems needs. This paper present a holonic manufacturing system architecture and complementary services supplied to assist overall Communication, Security, Reliability, Information Management, Co-operation and Co-ordination.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ICEIS
• Authors: Nuno Silva, Carlos Ramos
• Keywords: ICEIS 1999, Information Systems, Manufacturing Systems, Modern Manufacturing Systems, Single Entities Autonomy