Orchestrating dispersed productive systems

Abstract

According to trends in demand for customized products with less time-to-market possible, it is noticeable the need for a composition of automated productive systems (PSs) with a reconfigurable structure to maintain competitiveness against the increasing challenges of globalized market. This ability to reconfigure involves not only the internal structure of the PS, but also their participation into an integrated and coordinated environment with more complex productive process. Thus, this work presents a supervisory control architecture that integrates and coordinates a set of physically dispersed PSs, whose functionalities are made available as services for the implementation of productive processes. For the supervision and control of dispersed PSs it is adopted the "orchestration" technique.