Product-driven automation issues for B2M-control systems integration
Résumé
Enterprise-control system integration between business systems, manufacturing execution systems and shop-floor process-control systems remains a key issue for facilitating the definition, the development and the deployment of plant-wide information-control systems for e-B2M issues. Many rationales, trends and experiments are applying the HMS paradigm and its related agent-based technology in order to meet these B2M integration, interoperability and agility issues in industry. Research works presented in this paper emphasize some formal large-scale discrete-manufacturing product-driven automation issues within a broader modelling framework addressing the HMS paradigm as a pertinent system engineering approach mainly for products traceability purposes.