Agent-Based Shop-Floor Control System in a Dynamic Environment

Shop-floor control system plays important role to handle the problems come from the dynamic nature of the shop-floor. In this study, an Agent-Based Shop-Floor Control System is designed. Agents in the system are Marketing Agent, Production Planning Agent, Purchasing Agent and Shop-Floor Agents: Job, Machine and Cell. Designed distributed system contains heterogeneous units and was designed as hybrid control architecture. The study focuses on constructing an Agent-Based Shop-Floor Control System which has ability to manage dynamic scheduling activities. Shop-Floor Agents work in a harmony with each other in order to generate the schedules dynamically.