Decentralized Autonomous-Agent-Based Infrastructure for Agile Multiparallel Manufacturing

Abstract

This paper describes an agent-based software infrastructure for agile industrial production. This production is done on special devices called equip lets. A grid of these equip lets connected by a fast network is capable of producing a variety of different products in parallel. The multi-agent-based underlying systems uses two kinds of agents: an agent representing the product and an agent representing the equip let.