CARV Special Issue: Real-time, cooperative enterprises for customized mass production

Laszlo Monostori (1) , Tamás Kis (2) , Josef Vancza (3) , Botond Kádár (3) , Gábor Erdõs (3)

1 Engineering and Management Intelligence
2 Engineering and Management Intelligence
3 Engineering and Management Intelligence Lab

The paper discusses the main requirements that are posed by customized mass production towards managing production networks. Special emphasis is put on real-timeness and cooperativeness. We present a large-scale national industry-academia R&D project aimed at improving the performance of a production network that produces consumer goods in large quantities and variability. An integrated approach is outlined for planning and scheduling the behavior of the system at network-, factory- and plant levels, as well as for adapting the various plans and schedules to real execution conditions.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Laszlo Monostori, Tamás Kis, Josef Vancza, Botond Kádár, Gábor Erdõs. CARV Special Issue: Real-time, cooperative enterprises for customized mass production. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2009, 22 (01), pp.55-68. ⟨10.1080/09511920802369324⟩. ⟨hal-00513407⟩