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Effective and efficient implementation of intelligent and/or recently emerged networked manufacturing
systems require an enterprise level integration. The networked manufacturing offers several advantages
in the current competitive atmosphere by way to reduce, by shortening manufacturing cycle time and
maintaining the production flexibility thereby achieving several feasible process plans. The first step in
this direction is to integrate manufacturing functions such as process planning and scheduling for
multi-jobs in a network based manufacturing system. It is difficult to determine a proper plan that meets
conflicting objectives simultaneously. This paper describes a mobile-agent based negotiation approach to
integrate manufacturing functions in a distributed manner; and its fundamental framework and functions
are presented. Moreover, ontology has been constructed by using the ProtƩgƩ software which possesses
the flexibility to convert knowledge into Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema of Web
Ontology Language (OWL) documents. The generated XML schemas have been used to transfer information
throughout the manufacturing network for the intelligent interoperable integration of product data
models and manufacturing resources. To validate the feasibility of the proposed approach, an illustrative
example along with varied production environments that includes production demand fluctuations is
presented and compared the proposed approach performance and its effectiveness with evolutionary
algorithm based Hybrid Dynamic-DNA (HD-DNA) algorithm. The results show that the proposed scheme
is very effective and reasonably acceptable for integration of manufacturing functions.
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Keywords
Mobile-agent Networked manufacturing Ontology Process planning Scheduling
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Publisher
Elsevier