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2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Distributed Intelligent Automation Solutions for Self-adaptive Manufacturing Plants
Authors : Alessandro Brusaferri, Andrea Ballarino, Emanuele Carpanzano
Published in: Balanced Automation Systems for Future Manufacturing Networks
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Nowadays, a new generation of responsive factories is needed to face continuous changes in product demand and variety, and to manage complex and variant production processes. To such an aim, self-adaptive automation solutions are required, capable to adapt their control strategy in real-time to cope with planned as well as unforeseen product and process variations. In such a context, the present paper describes an automation solution based on a modular distributed approach for agile factory integration and reconfiguration, integrating a knowledge based cooperation policy providing self-adaptation to endogenous as well as exogenous events. The proposed approach is discussed through its application to a plant for customized shoe manufacturing.