An Agent-based Manufacturing Management System for Production and Logistics within Cross-Company Regional and National Production Networks

TL;DR

This paper presents a multi-agent-based manufacturing management system enabling real-time, decentralized control and planning within production networks, enhancing flexibility and responsiveness in supply chain operations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multi-agent system architecture for dynamic, decentralized manufacturing and logistics management within cross-company production networks.

Findings

Effective decentralized order dispatching algorithms

Integration of multi-agent systems into supply chain management

Improved real-time organizational control in manufacturing networks

Abstract

The goal is the development of a simultaneous, dynamic, technological as well as logistical real-time planning and an organizational control of the production by the production units themselves, working in the production network under the use of Multi-Agent-Technology. The design of the multi-agent-based manufacturing management system, the models of the single agents, algorithms for the agent-based, decentralized dispatching of orders, strategies and data management concepts as well as their integration into the SCM, basing on the solution described, will be explained in the following. Keywords: production engineering and management, dynamic manufacturing planning and control, multi-agentsystems (MAS), supply-chain-management (SCM), e-manufacturing