TY - JOUR
T1 - A formal model for incorporating shop floor controls into plant information systems
AU - Qiu, Robin G.
AU - Russell, David W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (39625015), Chinese Academy of Sciences (KJ95T-06), Shanghai Research Center for Life Sciences, and the German Max-Planck Society.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The high cost and long development cycle of shop floor controls (SFC) have prevented many small, medium, and even large-size manufacturers from deploying plant-wide, real-time information systems. In order to stay competitive in a make-to-order business model, such systems are essential. In addressing the obstacles to such systems, this article proposes a formal method that ensures that a built SFC can be applicable to a plant-wide, real- time information system. By taking advantage of both the linear growth of the complexity function in a structured adaptive supervisory control model, and the real-time responses of a virtual production line based e-Manufacturing system, a formal method for creating an integration-ready structured adaptive supervisory control model (iSASC) for a discrete manufacturing system is introduced. An iSASC-based SFC prototype system was successfully tested and evaluated in an industrial site.
AB - The high cost and long development cycle of shop floor controls (SFC) have prevented many small, medium, and even large-size manufacturers from deploying plant-wide, real-time information systems. In order to stay competitive in a make-to-order business model, such systems are essential. In addressing the obstacles to such systems, this article proposes a formal method that ensures that a built SFC can be applicable to a plant-wide, real- time information system. By taking advantage of both the linear growth of the complexity function in a structured adaptive supervisory control model, and the real-time responses of a virtual production line based e-Manufacturing system, a formal method for creating an integration-ready structured adaptive supervisory control model (iSASC) for a discrete manufacturing system is introduced. An iSASC-based SFC prototype system was successfully tested and evaluated in an industrial site.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00170-002-1461-5
DO - 10.1007/s00170-002-1461-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0842267362
VL - 23
SP - 47
EP - 57
JO - International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
JF - International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
SN - 0268-3768
IS - 1-2
ER -