Abstract: Adopting
distributed control architecture is the important development
direction for shop floor management and control system,
is
also the requirement of making it agile, intelligent
and concurrent. Some key problems in achieving distributed
control architecture are researched. An activity model of shop
floor is presented as the requirement definition of the
prototype system. The multi-agent based software architecture is
constructed. How the core part in shop floor management and
control system,
production
plan and scheduling is achieved. The cooperation of different
agents is illustrated. Finally, the
implementation of the prototype system is narrated.
Key words:
Agent Shop floor management and control CIMS
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This
project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of
China (No.50105006, No.59990470) and National Hi–Tech Program of
China (No.2001AA412140). Received April 13, 2001; received in revised
form November 10, 2001; accepted April 5, 2002
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