On the design and implementation of the resource holons in a PROSA based architecture

The holonic manufacturing systems represent both a modern approach to the manufacturing control problems and an open research area. The present contribution aims at establishing some design and implementation points regarding the resource holons in a PROSA based architecture. The proposed scheme makes use of JACK agents, which have their execution model appropriately adapted. The developed approach was tested on a manufacturing system with real industrial equipment, allowing a few conclusions to be derived.