Intelligent reconfiguration using knowledge based agent system

The new reconfigurable manufacturing paradigm requires development of systematic methods, and software tools, for the rapid design and builds up of production systems that change the capacity and functionality in response to the market demand. The effectiveness of reconfiguration depends upon the development of such tools. In this work, the new concept consisting of ontology knowledge based systems in connection with software agents are applied for the solution of the reconfiguration problem. Reconfigurability is achieved by the employment of the most modern technologies such as ontology driven solution