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This paper reports on an engineering approach to address the growing need for managing highly modular plants. An implemented agent-based manufacturing controller, inspired by ant social behavior, is presented and discussed. The work aims to provide the key engineering concerns on how the impact of variations in production resources, factory organization and planning processes can be smoothly tackled in respect of plant performance criteria. The insights are drawn along our experience carried out in the MPA (Modular Plant Architecture) project, which is part of the 5th EU framework program.
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Zamfirescu, C., Valckenaers, P., Van Brussel, H.H., Germain, B.S. (2003). A Case Study for Modular Plant Control. In: Mařík, V., McFarlane, D., Valckenaers, P. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45185-3_25
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