From plant and logistics control to multi-entreprise collaboration

Shimon Nof (1) , Gérard Morel (2) , Laszlo Monostori (3) , Arturo Molina (4) , Florin Filip (5)

1 PRISM CENTER - PRISM Center
2 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
3 SZTAKI - Institute for Computer Science and Control [Budapest]
4 DIA - División de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
5 Romanian Academy

Current and emerging manufacturing and logistics systems are posing new challenges and opportunities for the automation and control community. This milestone report describes the main problems, such as management of complexity, scalability, increasing costs, coordination, market-based resource allocation, and more. Recent accomplishments and trends are discussed: Control and automation techniques, manufacturing plant automation, collaborative control through integration and networking, and control methods applied to extended enterprises and large-scale critical infrastructure. Finally, forecasts are presented for the next generation manufacturing system; e-work; integration, coordination and collaboration; networked, distributed decision support (NDSS); and active middleware.

Mots clés: Agents; Bio-Inspired Control; Collaborative Control; Complex Systems; Coordination: Digital Enterprise: Distributed Manufacturing; Enterprise Networks; Integration; Large-Scale Systems; Multi-Agent Control

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Shimon Nof, Gérard Morel, Laszlo Monostori, Arturo Molina, Florin Filip. From plant and logistics control to multi-entreprise collaboration. IFAC Annual Reviews in Control, 2006, 30 (1), pp.55-68. ⟨hal-00092381⟩