Abstract
Shop-floor control of complex manufacturing systems continues to be a major obstacle in CIM implementation. The complexity of the problem is seen in the detailed scheduling requirements of product through the manufacturing resources, the allocation of tooling resources within the system, the communication requirements of the system, and the data base maintenance and access requirements of the system. In order to effectively control these activities, it is necessary to define an architecture and functional perspective of how a shop-floor control system operates.
In this paper, we define the architectural requirements and an overall control schema that we feel fits the complexity of the problem. The architectural elements include definitions of the following architectures: functional, control, data, computer, communication and factory. The definitions and interactions of these architectures along with a view for automated shop-floor control is discussed. An architecture for shop-floor control along with the application environment to implement such a system is also presented.
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Wysk, R.A. et al. (1993). Shop-Floor Scheduling and Control: A Systems Approach. In: Fandel, G., Gulledge, T., Jones, A. (eds) Operations Research in Production Planning and Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78063-9_22
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