Home // International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, volume 9, numbers 3 and 4, 2016 // View article

Transport Reduction in a Production Grid

Authors:
Leo van Moergestel
Erik Puik
Daniel Telgen
John-Jules Meyer

Keywords: Multiagent-based manufacturing; production path planning

Abstract:
In a production environment where different products are being made in parallel, the path planning for every product can be different. The model proposed in this paper is based on a production environment where the production machines are placed in a grid. A software entity, called product agent, is responsible for the manufacturing of a single product. The product agent will plan a path along the production machines needed for that specific product. In this paper, an optimization is proposed that will reduce the amount of transport between the production machines. The effect of two factors that influence the possibilities for reductions is shown in a simulation, using the proposed optimization scheme. These two factors are the redundancy of production steps in the grid and the number of steps where the order of execution is irrelevant. This paper presents for certain classes of production situations a method to reduce the number of transport hops between the production machines.

Pages: 244 to 254

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679