Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like v irtual 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, reactivit y and flexibility. New organisational and technological paradigms are needed in order to reply to the modern manufacturing systems needs. This paper presents a holonic manufacturing system architecture and specially the scheduling sub-system along with a new scheduling method adapted from a traditional one.
Keywords: HMS, Multi-Agent, Scheduling and Architecture
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