It requires major investment and business structural changes. In addition, the transition has significant impact on the external supply chain, typically uncontrolled by the core company. Each agent is responsible for monitoring and acting on a component of the manufacturing process. A component may be a process such as drilling press, a machining center, or a stack, such as inventory of pre-processed components control. Agents interact to control the flow of parts through either a traditional push or a lean pull or stack system.
Agents communicate through messages relative to their local context.
Knowledge of expected product completion. It is agreed that manufacturing is a distributed process that requires effective management of physically-constrained resources. Agent Infrastructure Implementing multi-agent software systems requires infrastructure services that are not readily available in standard computer platforms. These include dynamic agent creation and inter-agent communication. Without them, multi-agent software would be prohibitively expensive to implement, in terms of both cost and time to develop.