Performance Evaluation of a Production Control Architectures for Flexible Manufacturing System

Abstract

The study offers an analytical approach for assessing production control system performance in terms of volume and variety features of the product being manufactured for the flexible manufacturing system. Throughput, resource utilization, cycle time, and maximum completion time are the four performance indicators taken into account. The objective was to quantify the performance of the production system and define the reactive capability of production control architectures in a market that is becoming increasingly competitive. The examination of the production performances of control systems motivates the evaluation of these architectures through the introduction of scheduling approaches that deal with uncertainty. Results revealed the semi-heterarchical control architecture outperforms the hierarchical control architecture through multiple performance criteria. A case study with regard to a manufacturing control system was presented in order to highlight the significance of the adopted methodology and the contribution of the research.

Switching mechanism of dynamic hybrid control multi-agent system in manufacturing environment

“…A completely decentralized MARL architecture was proposed to enhance efficiency and scalability. Ismayyir et al [19] presented an analytical methodology for evaluating the performance of production control systems to the volume and variety characteristics of the products being created within the context of the FMS.…”