ATM for real-time manufacturing system architectures

The performance and the architecture of the network that interconnects the diverse functions of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) are of much importance. Indeed, the majority of these functions have critical-time constraints that must be considered when designing this network. In this paper, an architecture based on the OSI reference model is presented with elements of services and protocols which match the requirements for these constraints. The authors discuss the implementation of their architecture and evaluate the performance of this implementation. Finally, they compare the performance improvement with the existing implementation.