Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Self-organization in the I4.0 context

Traditional manufacturing systems implement paradigms to insert more flexibility and reconfigurability in their control structure. However, these concepts deliver flexibility from reconfiguring components to meet new demand at a higher granularity level. In these systems are specified control mechanisms with predictably utilizing resource functionality. The context of Industry 4.0 reveals environments of uncertainty and greater complexity, requiring proposals for emerging paradigms, such as Evolvable Assembly Systems (EAS), that treat modular components. On the other hand, Component I4.0 (I4.0C) standardizes resources in the virtual environment, especially when it comes to the coalition of functionalities, as they are created, organized throughout the life cycle of I4.0C. This work presents an architecture proposal to deal with these systems and mechanisms for self-organization of functionalities in manufacturing systems in the I4.0 context.