“…They are referenced as intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS), both the "holonic manufacturing system" (HMS) and the "agent-oriented manufacturing system" and, from the other side, "SelfOrganising Complex Flexible Assembly Systems" or Bionic Assembly Systems (Katalinic & Kordic, 2001;Katalinic et al, 2012). They were enabled, to a great extend, thanks to the development of production systems theory that lay the ground for such paradigms (Zelenovic et al, 1995;Zelenović et al, 1998;Tomović et al, 1990;Šešlija, 1988). Those paradigms have been presented in recent years as the basis for making such systems an industrial reality.…”