Abstract
A Holonic Manufacturing System (HMS) represents a new breed of intelligent shop-floor management technology for the production of artifacts that satisfy unique customer requirements. Flexibility is an essential characteristic of the HMS in order to manufacture high-variety low-volume artifacts. Autonomous ‘smart’ entities called holons interact, via cooperation protocols, within a HMS to support the runtime reconfiguration demanded by such an agile shop-floor. This paper presents a framework to reconfigure, in real-time, the holons’ abstract control system specifications. A tool is also described to convert these specifications into a corresponding IEC 61499 (function block architecture) implementation model that holons can execute across an open network of controller devices.
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