18th ICPR paper; Distributed Production Planning and Control Agent Based System

Rui Manuel Lima (1) , Rui Manuel Sousa (1) , Paulo Martins (1)

1 Department of Production and Systems

A model of an Agent based Production Planning and Control (PPC) system able to be dynamically adaptable to local and distributed utilization of production resources and materials is presented. The PPC system is based on the selection of resources to deal with one order of different quantities of one product each time. In this way it is build one scheduling solution for that particular order. The production resources are selected and scheduled using a multi-agent system supported by an implementation of the Smith Contract Net, using Java Spaces technology. The multi-agent system is based on three main agents: Client, Resource and Manager. These agents negotiate the final product, and the correspondent components, requested by the client. An order for each product (component) triggers a process of dynamic design of a production system to fulfill that particular order. This system exists till the end of the order.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Rui Manuel Lima, Rui Manuel Sousa, Paulo Martins. 18th ICPR paper; Distributed Production Planning and Control Agent Based System. International Journal of Production Research, 2006, 44 (18-19), pp.3693-3709. ⟨10.1080/00207540600788992⟩. ⟨hal-00512920⟩