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Application of co-operative agents in handling fluctuations in a pull production system

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posted on 2004-01-01, 00:00 authored by V Oakley, S Walsh, Saeid Nahavandi
This paper presents the general details of the structure and strategy of a multi-agent system that is being developed to improve the performance of pull (kanban) production control to handle large fluctuations in product demand. Employing a set of generic, heterarchial agents each controlling a single product and co-operating together to ensure that all components, regardless of demand fluctuation, are manufactured on time as per basic kanban principles. Preliminary results indicate that the basic kanban model does not cater for large demand fluctuations and the application of this multi-agent strategy may be beneficial to improving the overall system performance and increase the likelihood that all products will be manufactured on time.

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Title of proceedings

Intelligent automation and control : trends, principles and applications : proceedings of the Sixth World Automation Congress (WAC) ISIAC 2004, ISOMA 2004, Seville, Spain

Event

Intelligent Automation and Control. Symposium (5th : 2004 : Seville, Spain)

Pagination

1 - 6

Publisher

TSI Press

Location

Seville, Spain

Place of publication

Albuquerque, N.M

Start date

2004-06-28

End date

2004-07-01

ISBN-13

9781889335223

ISBN-10

1889335223

Language

eng

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Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2004, TSI Press

Editor/Contributor(s)

M Jamshidi, A Ollero, L Foulloy, M Reuter, A Kamrani, Y Hata

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