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The fourth revolution currently envisioned for manufacturing is characterized by the interconnection of distributed manufacturing facilities and the provision of their services through cloud computing. Customers will be allowed to customize products in a make-to-order strategy and select among the available facilities and services. This paper addresses the integrated scheduling of customer orders for a multi-factory, make-to-order manufacturing environment. Distributed facilities are represented as autonomous agents that generate the schedule through goal-oriented negotiations. Scheduling agents are abstracted from facilities-related data, which are made available along with auxiliary scheduling tools in the cloud. In this way, the proposed scheduling provides a generic solution that generates efficient schedules flexibly.
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Badr, I. (2016). Integrated Scheduling for Make-to-Order Multi-factory Manufacturing: An Agent-Based Cloud-Assisted Approach. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., McFarlane, D. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 640. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30337-6_25
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