Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems
Subtitle: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance (APICS Series on Resource Management)
Publisher: CRC
Published: October 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781574443363
Subjects: Computer aided manufacture (CAM); Production control; Computer integrated manufacturing systems; Business/Economics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Business & Economics; Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing; Expert systems (Computer scien; CAD-CAM - General; Technology / Manufacturing; Reference - General; Automation; Computer integrated manufactur; Expert systems (Computer science)
First sentence: After a preface on current trends in modern production systems, in which we define production models such as flexible, agile, and holonic manufacturing, the concepts of agent and multiagent systems (deriving from distributed artificial intelligence, as well as from decision and information technology) are introduced as a natural requisite to achieve the peak performance demanded by today's modern manufacturing.