The FABMAS multi-agent-system prototype for production control of water fabs: design, implementation and performance assessment
| Autor: | Ilka Habenicht, Jens Zimmermann, Marcel Stehli, Lars Mönch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
business.industry Semiconductor device fabrication Strategy and Management Tardiness Multi-agent system Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Computer Science Applications Computer architecture Computer cluster Production control Systems engineering Hierarchical control system Reference architecture Layer (object-oriented design) business |
| Zdroj: | Production Planning & Control. 17:701-716 |
| ISSN: | 1366-5871 0953-7287 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09537280600901269 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we describe a hierarchically organised multi-agent-system prototype that is used for production control of semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities (wafer fabs). Starting from requirements for modern production control systems and advanced production control algorithms, we design the hierarchical system. We suggest a three-layer hierarchy. We describe production control algorithms for each layer of the hierarchy. We consider the performance measure total weighted tardiness. After the design step, we discuss the implementation of the system prototype as a multi-agent-system (MAS). Our implementation is based on the PROSA reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems. The MAS approach especially allows for a distribution of the system on a computer cluster. We present the results of computational experiments with the system prototype. Furthermore, we suggest future research directions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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