Citation

Young KW, Muehlhaeusser R, Piggin RSH, Rachitrangsan P. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Pt. D J. Automobile Eng. 2001; 215(2): 189-195.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1243/0954407011525575

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

To cope with unpredictable demand and a wide variety of products, future production systems require agility. To realize manufacturing agility, the control system has to respond and adapt to variations in real-world, dynamic production environments. The control system has to promote requirements such as reduced complexity, increased flexibility, adaptation in real time, extensibility, heterogeneity and autonomous operation. A control system architecture is proposed ensuring manufacturing agility by adapting quickly and cheaply to changes in the production environment.

Language: en